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geneva@Psalms:141:1 @ «A Psalm of David.» LORD, I (note:)He shows that there is no other refuge in our necessity but only to flee to God for comfort of soul.(:note) cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:141:2 @ Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and] the (note:)He means his earnest zeal and gesture, which he used in prayer: alluding to the sacrifices which were by God's commandment offered in the old law.(:note) lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.

geneva@Psalms:141:3 @ Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; (note:)He desires God to keep his thoughts and ways either from thinking or executing vengeance.(:note) keep the door of my lips.

geneva@Psalms:141:4 @ Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their (note:)Let not their prosperity lure me to be wicked as they are.(:note) dainties.

geneva@Psalms:141:5 @ Let the righteous smite me; [it shall be] a kindness: and let (note:)He could abide all corrections that came from a loving heart.(:note) him reprove me; [it shall be] an excellent oil, [which] shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also [shall be] in their calamities.

geneva@Psalms:141:6 @ When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall (note:)The people who follow their wicked rulers in persecuting the prophet will repent and turn to God, when they see their wicked rulers punished.(:note) hear my words; for they are sweet.

geneva@Psalms:141:7 @ Our bones are scattered at the (note:)Here it appears that David was miraculously delivered out of many deaths as in (2Co_1:9-10).(:note) grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.

geneva@Psalms:141:8 @ But mine eyes looke vnto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust: leaue not my soule destitute.

geneva@Psalms:141:9 @ Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.

geneva@Psalms:141:10 @ Let the wicked fall into (note:)Into God's nets, by which he catches the wicked in their own malice.(:note) their own nets, So that none of them escape. whilst that I withal escape.

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