Psalms 140
140
A Prayer for Protection
For the Pure and Shining One
King David’s poetic song
1Lord, protect me from this evil one!
Rescue me from these violent schemes!
2He concocts his secret strategy to divide and harm others,
stirring up trouble one against another.
3They are known for their sharp rhetoric
of poisonous, hateful words.
Pause in his presence
4Keep me safe, Lord, out of reach from these wicked and violent men,
and guard me, God, for they have plotted an evil scheme
to ruin me and bring me down.
5They are proud and insolent; they’ve set an ambush for me in secret.
They are determined to snare me in their net like captured prey.
Pause in his presence
6-7O Lord, you are my God and my saving strength!
My Hero-God, you wrap yourself around me to protect me.
For I’m surrounded by your presence in my day of battle.
Lord Yahweh, hear my cry.
May my voice move your heart to show me mercy.
8Don’t let the wicked triumph over me,
but bring down their every strategy to subdue me
or they will become even more arrogant!
Pause in his presence
9Those who surround me are nothing but proud troublemakers.
May they drink the poison of their own poisonous words.
10-11May their slanderous lives never prosper!
Let evil itself hunt them down and pursue them relentlessly
until they are thrown into fiery pits
from which they will never get out!
Let burning coals of hellfire fall upon their heads!
12For I know, Lord, that you will be the hero
of all those they persecute,
and you will secure justice for the poor.
13Your godly ones will thank you no matter what happens.
For they choose and cherish your presence
above everything else!
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Learn More About The Passion TranslationTehillim 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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