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Psalms 141 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | Chanting to David. O Jehovah, I called to thee; hasten to me; give ear to my voice in my calling to thee. | O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you! | A psalm of David. I call to you, LORD, come quickly to me; hear me when I call to you. | |
| 2 | My prayer shall be prepared incense before thee; the lifting up my hands the gift of the evening. | Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! | May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice. | |
| 3 | Set, O Jehovah, a watch to my mouth; guard over the door of my lips. | Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! | Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips. | |
| 4 | Thou wilt not incline my heart to an evil word, to work works in injustice with men doing iniquity: and I will not eat upon their dainties. | Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies! | Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies. | |
| 5 | The just one shall smite me; a mercy: and he shall admonish me, an oil of the head it shall not decorate my head: for yet my prayer in their evils. | Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds. | Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness; let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it, for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers. | |
| 6 | Their judges were cast down against the hands of the rock, and they heard my words, for they were sweet. | When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant. | Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken. | |
| 7 | As he cutting up and cleaving asunder in the earth, our bones were scattered at the mouth of hades. | As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol. | They will say, “As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.” | |
| 8 | For to thee, O Jehovah my Lord, are mine eyes: in thee I put my trust; thou wilt not make my soul naked. | But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless! | But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge—do not give me over to death. | |
| 9 | Watch me from the hands of the snare they will lay for me, and the snares of those working iniquity. | Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers! | Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers, from the snares they have laid for me. | |
| 10 | The unjust shall fall into their nets together, till I shall pass by. | Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely. | Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety. | |
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