Psalm 140
Psalmus 140
Dómine, clamávi ad te, exáudi me: * ‡ inténde voci meae, cum clamávero ad te.
Dirigátur orátio mea sicut incénsum in conspéctu tuo: * elevátio mánuum meárum sacrifícium vespertínum.
Pone, Dómine, custódiam ori meo: * et óstium circumstántiae lábiis meis.
Non declínes cor meum in verba malítiae, * ad excusándas excusatiónes in peccátis.
Cum homínibus operántibus iniquitátem: * et non communicábo cum eléctis eórum.
Corrípiet me justus in misericórdia, et increpábit me: * óleum autem peccatóris non impínguet caput meum.
Quóniam adhuc et orátio mea in beneplácitis eórum: * absórpti sunt juncti petrae júdices eórum.
Audient verba mea quóniam potuérunt: * sicut crassitúdo terrae erúpta est super terram.
Dissipáta sunt ossa nostra secus inférnum: * quia ad te, Dómine, Dómine, óculi mei: in te sperávi, non áuferas ánimam meam.
Custódi me a láqueo, quem statuérunt mihi: * et a scándalis operántium iniquitátem.
Cadent in retiáculo ejus peccatóres: * singuláriter sum ego donec tránseam.
Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sáecula saeculórum. Amen.
Psalm 140
I have cried to thee, O Lord, hear me: * ‡ hearken to my voice, when I cry to thee.
Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; * the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: * and a door round about my lips.
Incline not my heart to evil words; * to make excuses in sins.
With men that work iniquity: * and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.
The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: * but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head.
For my prayer also shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased: * their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up.
They shall hear my words, for they have prevailed: * as when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground.
Our bones are scattered by the side of hell. * But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.
Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, * and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.
The wicked shall fall in his net: * I am alone until I pass.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
