Psalms 140
140
A Prayer for Protection#Ps 140 Hebrew title: A psalm by David.
1Save me, LORD, from evildoers;
keep me safe from violent people.
2They are always plotting evil,
always stirring up quarrels.
3 #
Rom 3.13
Their tongues are like deadly snakes;
their words are like a cobra's poison.
4Protect me, LORD, from the power of the wicked;
keep me safe from violent people
who plot my downfall.
5The proud have set a trap for me;
they have laid their snares
and along the path they have set traps to catch me.
6I say to the LORD, “You are my God.”
Hear my cry for help, LORD!
7My Sovereign LORD, my strong defender,
you have protected me in battle.
8 LORD, don't give the wicked what they want;
don't let their plots succeed.
9Don't let my enemies be victorious;#140.9 Probable text Don't let my enemies be victorious; Hebrew unclear.
make their threats against me fall back on them.
10May red-hot coals fall on them;
may they be thrown into a pit and never get out.
11May those who accuse others falsely not succeed;
may evil overtake violent people and destroy them.
12 LORD, I know that you defend the cause of the poor
and the rights of the needy.
13The righteous will praise you indeed;
they will live in your presence.
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Tehillim 140
140
(For the one directing. Mizmor of Dovid)
1 Deliver me, Hashem, from adam rah; preserve me from ish chamasim (violent men);
2 Which plan ra'ot (evils) in their lev; kol yom they incite milchamot (wars).
3 They have sharpened their leshonot like a nachash; the venom of a spider is under their sfatayim (lips). Selah
4 Be shomer over me, Hashem, and keep me from the hands of the rashah; protect me from ish chamasim, whose scheme is to cause my steps to trip.
5 The ge'im (proud, arrogant ones)#140:5 of inordinate ambition have hid a pach for me, and chavalim (cords, ropes); they have spread a reshet (net) close by the path; they have set mokshim (traps) for me. Selah
6 I said unto Hashem, Thou art Eli; hear the kol tachanunai (voice of my supplications), Hashem.
7 Hashem Adonoi, Oz Yeshu'ati (strength of my salvation), Thou hast covered my rosh in the Yom Neshek (Day of Arms, Day of Battle).
8 Grant not, Hashem, the desires of the rashah; let not his plot succeed; lest they exalt themselves. Selah
9 As for the rosh of those that surround me, let the amal (trouble) of their own sfatayim (lips) cover them.
10 Let burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the eish; into mahamorot (watery pits), that they rise not up again.
11 Let not an ish lashon (idle talker, slanderer) be established in ha'aretz; rah shall hunt down the ish chamas to overthrow him.
12 I know that Hashem will maintain the din oni (cause of the poor), and the mishpat evyonim (the right of the needy).
13 Surely the tzaddikim shall give thanks unto Thy Shem; the upright shall dwell in Thy presence.
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