Psalms 140

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 [For the choirmaster Psalm Of David] Rescue me, Yahweh, from evil men, protect me from violentmen,	1 A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried out to you, hear me. Attend to my voice, when I cry out to you.
2 whose heart is bent on malice, day after day they harbour strife;	2 Let my prayer be guided like incense in your sight: the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.
3 their tongues as barbed as a serpent's, viper's venom behind their lips.Pause	3 O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.
4 Keep me, Yahweh, from the clutches of the wicked, protect me from violent men, who are bent onmaking me stumble,laying out snares where I walk,	4 Do not turn aside my heart to words of malice, to making excuses for sins, with men who work iniquity; and I will not communicate, even with the best of them.
5 in their arrogance hiding pitfal and nooseto trap me as I pass.Pause	5 The just one will correct me with mercy, and he will rebuke me. But do not allow the oil of the sinner to fatten my head. For my prayer will still be toward their good will.
6 I said to Yahweh, 'You are my God.' Listen, Yahweh, to the sound of my prayer.	6 Their judges have been engulfed, joined to the rocks. They will hear my words, which have prevailed,
7 Yahweh my Lord, my saving strength, you shield my head when battle comes.	7 as when the lava of the earth has erupted above ground. Our bones have been scattered beside Hell.
8 Yahweh, do not grant the wicked their wishes, do not let their plots succeed.Pause Do not let myattackers	8 For Lord, O Lord, my eyes look to you. In you, I have hoped. Do not take away my soul.
9 prevail, but let them be overwhelmed by their own malice.	9 Protect me from the snare that they have set up for me and from the scandals of those who work iniquity.
10 May red-hot embers rain down on them, may they be flung into the mire once and for all.	10 The sinners will fall into his net. I am alone, until I pass over.
11 May the slanderer find no rest anywhere, may evil hunt down violent men implacably.
12 I know that Yahweh wil give judgement for the wretched, justice for the needy.
13 The upright shal praise your name, the honest dwel in your presence.