Psalms 141

New Jerusalem Bible	Catholic Public Domain Bible
¹ [Psalm Of David] Yahweh, I am cal ing, hurry to me, listen to my voice when I cal to you.	¹ The understanding of David. A prayer, when he was in the cave.
² May my prayer be like incense in your presence, my uplifted hands like the evening sacrifice.	² With my voice, I cried out to the Lord. With my voice, I made supplication to the Lord.
³ Yahweh, mount a guard over my mouth, a guard at the door of my lips.	³ In his sight, I pour out my prayer, and before him, I declare my tribulation.
⁴ Check any impulse to speak evil, to share the foul deeds of evil-doers. I shal not sample theirdelights!	⁴ Though my spirit may become faint within me, even then, you have known my paths. Along this way, which I have been walking, they have hidden a snare for me.
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 I considered toward the right, and I looked, but there was no one who would know me. Flight has perished before me, and there is no one who has concern for my soul.
⁶ They are delivered into the power of the rock, their judge, those who took pleasure in hearing mesay,	⁶ I cried out to you, O Lord. I said: You are my hope, my portion in the land of the living.
⁷ 'Like a shattered mil stone on the ground our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.'	⁷ Attend to my supplication. For I have been humbled exceedingly. Free me from my persecutors, for they have been fortified against me.
⁸ To you, Yahweh, I turn my eyes, in you I take refuge, do not leave me unprotected.	⁸ Lead my soul out of confinement in order to confess your name. The just are waiting for me, until you repay me.
⁹ Save me from the traps that are set for me, the snares of evil-doers.
¹⁰ Let the wicked fal each into his own net, while I pass on my way.