Psalms 141:1-10

¹Yahweh, I call out to you; please help me quickly! Listen to me when I am calling to you.

²Accept my prayer as though it were incense being burned as an offering SIM to you. And accept me while I lift up my hands to pray to you like you accept sacrifices that I offer to you each evening SIM.

³Yahweh, do not allow me to say MTY things that are wrong; guard my lips.

⁴Prevent me from wanting to do anything that is wrong, and from joining with wicked men when they want to do evil deeds DOU. Do not even allow me to share in eating delightful food with them!

⁵It is all right if righteous people strike/hit me or rebuke me because they are trying to act kindly toward me to teach me to do what is right, but I do not want wicked people to honor me by anointing my head with olive oil; I am always praying that you will punish them because of the wicked deeds that they do.

⁶When their rulers are thrown down from the top of rocky cliffs, people will know that what you, Yahweh, said about them is true.

⁷Like a log that is split and cut into small pieces SIM, their shattered bones will be scattered on the ground near other graves.

⁸But Yahweh God, I continue to assk you to help me. I ask you to protect me; do not allow me to ◄die/be killed► now!

⁹It is as though people have set traps for me; protect me from falling into those traps, It is as though they have spread nets to catch me; keep me from being caught in those nets.

¹⁰I desire that wicked people will fall into the traps they have set to catch me while I escape from them.