Ps 141:1
141:1 <> LORD, I {a} cry unto thee: make
haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto
thee.
(a) He shows that there is no other refuge in our
necessity but only to flee to God for comfort of soul.
Ps 141:2
141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and]
the {b} lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.
(b) 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.
Ps 141:3
141:3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; {c} keep the door of
my lips.
(c) He desires God to keep his thoughts and ways either
from thinking or executing vengeance.
Ps 141:4
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 {d} dainties.
(d) Let not their prosperity lure me to be wicked as they
are.
Ps 141:5
141:5 Let the righteous smite me; [it shall be] a kindness: and
let {e} 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.
(e) He could abide all corrections that came from a loving
heart.
Ps 141:6
141:6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they
shall {g} hear my words; for they are sweet.
(g) The people who follow their wicked rulers in
persecuting the prophet will repent and turn to God,
when they see their wicked rulers punished.
Ps 141:7
141:7 Our bones are scattered at the {h} grave's mouth, as when
one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.
(h) Here it appears that David was miraculously delivered
out of many deaths as in @2Co 1:9,10.
Ps 141:10
141:10 Let the wicked fall into {i} their own nets, {k} whilst
that I withal escape.
(i) Into God's nets, by which he catches the wicked in
their own malice.
(k) So that none of them escape.
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