A psalm written by David

141 Yahweh, I call out to you;

please help me quickly!

Listen to me when I am calling to you.

2 Accept 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].

3 Yahweh, do not allow me to say [MTY] things that are wrong;

guard my lips.

4 Prevent 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!

5 It 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.

6 When their rulers are thrown down from the top of rocky cliffs,

people will know that what you, Yahweh, said about them is true.

7 Like a log that is split and cut into small pieces [SIM],

their shattered bones will be scattered on the ground near other graves.

8 But Yahweh God, I continue to ask you to help me.

I ask you to protect me;

do not allow me to ◄die/be killed► now!

9 It 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.

10 I desire that wicked people will fall into the traps they have set to catch me

while I escape from them.