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PSALMS.
PSALM 141.( v) Domine, clamavi.
( 1) LORD, I call upon thee, haste thee unto me and consider my voice when I cry unto thee.
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2 Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and keep the door of my lips.
40 let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing: let me not be occupied in ungodly works with the men that work wickedness, lest I eat of such things as please them( 2).
3." Let the righteous
5 Let the righteous rather smite me friend- smite me; it shall be and reprove me.
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a kindness: and let
6 But let not their precious balms break my head( 3): yea, I will pray yet against their wickedness.
7 Let their judges be overthrown in stony places that they may hear my words, for they are sweet( 4).
8 Our bones lie scattered before the pit: like as when one breaketh and heweth wood upon the earth( 5).
9 But mine eyes look unto thee, O Lord God in thee is my trust, O cast not out my soul.
10 Keep me from the snare that they have laid for me and from the traps of the wicked doers.
11 Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together and let me ever escape them.
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1. David, in the wilderness, implores
that his devotion, as incense, and his prayers, as an oblation, shall be accept
ed at the throne of grace.
2. That is, lest I partake of their society. ( Pro. 4. 17.)
him reprove me; it shall be an excellent
oil, which shall not break my head:" that is, depress me.
4. When their princes were dismissed from
the rocks, David mildly expostulated with Saul.( See 1. Sam. 24.) 5. Alluding to the slaughter of the Priests by Doeg: ( 1 Sam. 22.) the omission of burial
was considered by the Jews a sore calamity.
v. David composed this Psalm just before he was driven out of Judea, and fled to Achish, King of Gath, after that he had a second time spared Saul's life.( 1 Sam. 21. and 27.)
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