Psalms 141

NEW JERUSALEM	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 [Psalm Of David] Yahweh, I am cal ing, hurry to me, listen to my voice when I cal to you.	1 A psalm of David. LORD, I call to you; come quickly to help me; listen to my plea when I call.
2 May my prayer be like incense in your presence, my uplifted hands like the evening sacrifice.	2 Let my prayer be incense before you; my uplifted hands an evening sacrifice.
3 Yahweh, mount a guard over my mouth, a guard at the door of my lips.	3 Set a guard, LORD, before my mouth, a gatekeeper at my lips.
4 Check any impulse to speak evil, to share the foul deeds of evil-doers. I shal not sample theirdelights!	4 Do not let my heart incline to evil, or yield to any sin. I will never feast upon the fine food of evildoers.
5 May the upright correct me with a friend's rebuke; but the wicked shal never anoint my head with oil,for that would make me party to their crimes.	5 Let the just strike me; that is kindness; let them rebuke me; that is oil for my head. All this I shall not refuse, but will pray despite these trials.
6 They are delivered into the power of the rock, their judge, those who took pleasure in hearing mesay,	6 When their leaders are cast over the cliff, all will learn that my prayers were heard.
7 'Like a shattered mil stone on the ground our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.'	7 As when a farmer plows a field into broken clods, so their bones will be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
8 To you, Yahweh, I turn my eyes, in you I take refuge, do not leave me unprotected.	8 My eyes are upon you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I take refuge; do not strip me of life.
9 Save me from the traps that are set for me, the snares of evil-doers.	9 Guard me from the trap they have set for me, from the snares of evildoers.
10 Let the wicked fal each into his own net, while I pass on my way.	10 Into their own nets let all the wicked fall, while I make good my own escape.