Psalms 141 YLT
Summary: A psalm of David framed as an evening prayer, opening with the memorable image "Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice" (v. 2). He asks God to guard his own mouth and heart first — "set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips" (v. 3) — preferring the honest rebuke of the righteous to the flattering "oil" of the wicked, which he refuses to let anoint his head (v. 5). It closes asking that his eyes remain fixed on God even while surrounded by the snares of evildoers.
1A Psalm, by David. O Jehovah, I have called Thee, haste to me, Give ear to my voice when I call to Thee.
2My prayer is prepared--incense before Thee, The lifting up of my hands--the evening present.
3Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.
4Incline not my heart to an evil thing, To do habitually actions in wickedness, With men working iniquity, Yea, I eat not of their pleasant things.
5The righteous doth beat me in kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer is about their vexations.
6Their judges have been released by the sides of a rock, And they have heard my sayings, For they have been pleasant.
7As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.
8But to Thee, O Jehovah, my Lord, are mine eyes, In Thee I have trusted, Make not bare my soul.
9Keep me from the gin they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.
10The wicked fall in their nets together, till I pass over!
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