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140:1Deliver me, O Jehovah, from evil men; / From violent men preserve me;
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140:2Who devise evil schemes in their hearts / And continually stir up wars.
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140:3They have sharpened their tongues like that of a serpent; / The poison of adders is under their lips. Selah.
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140:4Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked; / From violent men preserve me; / Who devise schemes to thrust me down.
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140:5The proud have hidden a trap for me and cords; / They have spread a net by the wayside; / They have set snares for me. Selah.
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140:6I said to Jehovah, You are my God; / Give ear, O Jehovah, to the voice of my supplications.
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140:7O Jehovah Lord, strength of my salvation, / You have covered my head in the day of battle.
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140:8O Jehovah, do not grant the desires of the wicked man; / Do not let his evil scheme advance, / Lest he be exalted. Selah.
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140:9As for the head of those who surround me, / May the mischief of their own lips cover them.
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140:10May burning coals drop down upon them; / May they be thrown down into the fire, / Into deep pits, never to rise again.
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140:11Let no slanderer be established in the land; / Let evil hunt down the violent man speedily.
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140:12I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted / And justice for the needy.
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140:13Surely the righteous will give thanks to Your name; / The upright will dwell in Your presence.
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A Psalm of David
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141:1O Jehovah, I have called upon You; hasten to me. / Give ear to my voice when I call out to You.
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141:2Let my prayer be set before You as incense, / The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.
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141:3Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; / Keep the door of my lips.
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141:4Do not let my heart turn to anything evil, / To practice deeds of wickedness / With men who commit iniquity; / And let me not eat of their delicacies.
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141:5Let the righteous strike me in kindness and reprove me; / Let not my head refuse oil upon the head, / For still my prayer is against their evil deeds.
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141:6Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock, / And they hear my words, that they are pleasant.
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141:7As when one plows and breaks up the earth, / Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
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141:8For my eyes are upon You, O Jehovah Lord; / In You I take refuge; do not pour out my soul.
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141:9Keep me from the trap they have set for me / And from the snares of the workers of iniquity.
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141:10May the wicked fall into their own nets / While I alone pass by.
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A Maschil of David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer
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142:1With my voice I cry to Jehovah; / With my voice I make my supplication to Jehovah.
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142:2I pour out my complaint before Him; / I declare my trouble before Him.
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142:3When my spirit fainted within me, / You knew my path. / On the way on which I walked / They have hidden a trap for me.
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142:4Look on my right hand and see, / For there is no one who regards me; / Refuge has failed me; / No one cares for me.
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142:5I cried to You, O Jehovah; / I said, You are my refuge, / My portion in the land of the living.
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142:6Give heed to my cry, / For I have been brought very low; / Deliver me from those who persecute me, / For they are stronger than I.
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142:7Bring my soul out of prison, / That I may give thanks to Your name. / The righteous will surround me, / For You will deal bountifully with me.
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A Psalm of David
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143:1O Jehovah, hear my prayer; / Give ear to my supplications; / Answer me in Your faithfulness and in Your righteousness;
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143:2And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, / For no one alive is righteous in Your sight.
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143:3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; / He has crushed my life down to the ground; / He has caused me to dwell in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
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143:4Therefore my spirit faints within me; / My heart is appalled in the midst of me.
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143:5I remember the days of old; / I meditate upon all that You have done; / I muse upon the work of Your hands.
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143:6I spread out my hands to You; / My soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah.
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143:7Hurry and answer me, O Jehovah; / My spirit fails. / Do not hide Your face from me, / Lest I become like those who go down into the pit.
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143:8Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, / For in You I trust. / Make known to me the way on which I should walk, / For to You I lift up my soul.
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143:9Deliver me from my enemies, O Jehovah; / I have fled to You for a refuge.
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143:10Teach me to do Your will, / For You are my God; / Let Your good Spirit lead me / In a plain country.
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143:11For Your name's sake, O Jehovah, preserve me alive; / In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.
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143:12And in Your lovingkindness cut off my enemies / And destroy all those who oppress my soul, / For I am Your servant.
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Of David
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144:1Blessed be Jehovah my rock, / Who teaches my hands for war / And my fingers for battle:
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144:2My Lord of lovingkindness and my fortress, / My high retreat and my Deliverer, / My shield and He in whom I take refuge, / Who subdues my people under me.
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144:3O Jehovah, what is man, that You take knowledge of him, / And the son of mortal man, that You think of him?
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144:4Man is like a breath; / His days are like a passing shadow.
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144:5O Jehovah, bow Your heavens down and descend; / Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
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144:6Flash forth lightning, and scatter them; / Send forth Your arrows, and discomfit them.
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144:7Stretch forth Your hand from on high; / Rescue me and deliver me / From the great waters, / From the hand of foreigners;
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144:8Whose mouth speaks deceit, / And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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144:9O God, I will sing a new song to You; / Upon a harp of ten strings I will sing psalms to You,
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144:10Who gives salvation to kings, / Who rescues David His servant from the hurtful sword.
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144:11Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, / Whose mouth speaks deceit, / And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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144:12May our sons be like plants / Grown up in their youth; / May our daughters be like corner pillars / Hewn out in fashion for a palace;
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144:13May our barns be full, / Furnishing produce of all kinds; / May our sheep bring forth thousands / And ten thousands in our fields;
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144:14May our oxen be fully laden; / May there be no breaking in to rob or going forth to fight, / Or outcry in our streets.
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144:15Blessed are the people who are so; / Blessed are the people whose God is Jehovah.
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