KEEP ME FROM THE SNARES ... - See the notes at Psalms 11:6. Compare Psalms 38:12; Psalms 69:22; Psalms 91:3. The secret pl
PSALM 140-142 These three Psalms are Psalms of David. The third one in this series, 142 is another Maschil, the last Maschil Psalm, being a prayer when David was in the cave. In these Psalms the distr...
CXLI. FOR LOYALTY TO GOD AND HIS SAINTS. Psalms 141:1 f. The Psalmist begs Yahweh to hear his prayer. He utters this prayer in his house, and in true prophetic spirit hopes that it will be as acceptab...
KEEP. Same root as "watch"in Psalms 141:3. (Hebrew. _shamreni.)_ SNARES. Authorized Version, 1611, read "snares" (singular) Since 1769, "snares" (plural) Hebrew text is singular. GINS. traps. Short...
Cp. Psalms 140:4-5. _grins_ Rather, baits or lures, the sensual temptations by which they are endeavouring to entice him (Psalms 141:4). For _grins_see on Psalms 140:5....
Concluding expression of confidence, with prayer for preservation and deliverance....
KEEP ME FROM THE SNARE, &C.— If Saul and his evil counsellors be meant in the first clause of the 9th verse, there is no doubt but the _heathen_ to whom David was now driven for refuge, must be unders...
PSALMS 141 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Temptation to Conspiracy Shunned. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 141:1-3, Prayer for Guarded Speech. Stanza II., Psalms 141:4-5, Danger from Proffered Hospitalities. St
An evening prayer in time of trouble. The Psalmist prays that he may be strengthened to resist temptation, and so escape the fate of evil men....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ AN EVENING *PRAYER PSALMS 141 Jesus said, "What will a man have if he buys the whole world but loses his own soul?" ...
Comp. Psalms 25:15....
FROM THE SNARE. — The original idiom is far more forcible: “from the hands (or, ‘clutches’) of the snare.” (See above, Psalms 141:6, “in the hands of the cliff.”)...
שָׁמְרֵ֗נִי מִ֣ ידֵי פַ֭ח יָ֣קְשׁוּ לִ֑י וּ֝
Psalms 141:1 PART of this psalm is hopelessly obscure, and the connection is difficult throughout. It is a prayer of a harassed soul, tempted to slacken its hold on God, and therefore betaking itself...
HUMILITY Psalms 141:1-10 This is an evening psalm. Acceptable prayer is as the smoke of incense rising in the still air, Revelation 5:8; Revelation 8:3-4. Each day we should ask to be delivered f...
In this song the influence of the external troubles upon the inner life of the singer is revealed. Throughout it breathes the spirit of fear lest the soul should be seduced from the attitude of whole-...
In the first of these verses we have more speakers than one; but the Psalmist, turning from the calamities there described, finds comfort in looking to the Lord; and takes sure confidence in the perfe...
9._Keep me_, _etc_. He owns himself to be shut up in the snares of his enemies, unless set free by a higher hand. In praying to God under the straits to which he was reduced, he proves what a high est...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 140 THROUGH 144. The five following psalms go over ground which we have trodden over in detail: only they apply to a restored Israel, still in conflict, and not...
KEEP ME FROM THE SNARE [WHICH] THEY HAVE LAID FOR ME,.... Either Saul, who gave him a wife to be a snare to him, and set men to watch his house and take him; or the Ziphites, who proposed to Saul to d...
Keep me from the snares [which] they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity. Ver. 9. _Keep me from the snare, &c._] See Psalms 145:5 ....
_Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me_ Keep me from being taken in it: give me to discover and evade it. If Saul and his evil counsellors be intended in this clause, probably the heathen...
EVENING PSALM IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS. A psalm of David, a prayer for deliverance from afflictions and from the enemies who cause them....
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, which are like hands stretched out to catch and overthrow the believer, AND THE GINS OF THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY, wherewith they intend to trap the...
5-10 We should be ready to welcome the rebuke of our heavenly Father, and also the reproof of our brethren. It shall not break my head, if it may but help to break my heart: we must show that we take...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 141:9 Keep H8104 (H8798) snares H3027 H6341 laid H3369 (H8804) traps H4170 workers H6466
Psalms 141:1. _LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee._ You see how a child of God prays when he is in trouble. David says, «I cry unto thee,» and the...
CONTENTS: Prayer for God's favorable acceptance and powerful assistance. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Though the snares be placed by the enemy with ever so much subtlety, God can, and will, s...
This psalm, like the last, is generally supposed to have been composed by David during his persecution by Saul, probably when he fled to Achish. The late Rev. Mr. Peters, a Cornish clergyman, has favo...
_Lord, I cry unto Thee._ AN INVOCATION FOR THE TRULY DESIRABLE IN HUMAN LIFE: - I. Divine attention to human aspirations (verses 1, 2). 1. For immediate attention. 2. For favourable attention. II...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 141:1. This is an individual lament, a prayer that God will protect the faithful person against all insincerity and compromise....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 141:8 The prayer that God would KEEP ME from falling prey to their schemes becomes a prayer that the WICKED would FALL INTO THEIR OWN NETS....
INTRODUCTION “This Psalm presents,” says Perowne, “some peculiar difficulties of Interpretation, which, however, are due neither to the words employed nor to the grammatical construction, but to the e...
EXPOSITION ALMOST wholly a psalm of supplication. David is again in danger, and needs a prompt deliverance (Psalms 141:1). This time the danger seems to be that he may fall away, and be absorbed into...
Psa 140:1-13, another psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. T...
Jeremiah 18:22; Luke 20:20; Proverbs 13:14; Psalms 119:110; P