Psalms 141:3
What meaning of the psalms 141:3 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 141:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips."
What does Psalms 141:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips."
Verse Psalms 141:3. _SET A WATCH, O LORD, BEFORE MY MOUTH_] While there are so many spies on my actions and words, I have need to be doubly guarded, that my enemies may have no advantage against me. S...
SET A WATCH, O LORD, BEFORE MY MOUTH - That I may not say anything rashly, unadvisedly, improperly. Compare Psalms 39:1. The prayer here is, that God would guard him from the temptation to say somethi...
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 dist...
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 accepta...
SET. WATCH. Set. guard. Hebrew. _shamrah._ Same word as "keep", Psalms 141:9 Occurs only here. KEEP. keep in safety. Not the same word as in Psalms 141:9....
Cp. Psalms 34:13; Psalms 39:1; Proverbs 13:3; Proverbs 21:23. The special point of the prayer is that he may be guarded from adopting the profane language of the ungodly men by whom he is surrounded....
SET A WATCH, O LORD, &C.— Mr. Peters paraphrases these two verses thus: "I am now going to seek a retreat from the persecutions of my master Saul, amidst a race of idolaters, who will be curious to ob...
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. Sta...
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. SET A WATCH, O LORD, BEFORE MY MOUTH ... INCLINE NOT MY HEART TO ANY EVIL THING, TO PRACTICE WICKED WORKS - (cf. .) God, in judicial...
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?" (MARK 8:36) (The soul is the part of us that...
WATCH. — The image drawn from the guard set at city gates at night seems to indicate the evening as the time of composition of the psalm. DOOR OF MY LIPS. — Comp. “doors of thy mouth” (Micah 7:5), an...
שִׁיתָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה שָׁמְרָ֣ה לְ פִ֑י נִ֝צְּרָ֗ה עַל ־דַּ֥ל שְׂפָתָֽי׃...
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-...
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....
_Pour out. Explaining all the sentiments of my heart, Psalm lxi. 9. (Calmet) --- This is never perfectly done with earthly friends, 1 Peter v. 7. (Berthier)_...
How earnest is a child of God, that he should act and live as becometh a child of God. He knows full well, that unless the Lord keep the heart, the lips will utter foolishness. And when the Lord dispo...
3._Set a watch, O Jehovah! upon my mouth_. As David was liable to be hurt at the unbridled and unprincipled rage of his enemies, so as to be tempted to act in a manner that might not be justifiable, h...
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...
SET A WATCH, O LORD, BEFORE MY MOUTH,.... While praying, as Jarchi and Kimchi; that he might not utter any rash, unguarded, and unbecoming word; but take and use the words which God gives, even the ta...
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. Ver. 3. _Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth_] _Orat pro patientia,_ saith one, here he prayeth for patience; lest by giving himself l...
_Set a watch before my mouth_ That I may not, through mine own infirmity, and the great provocation of mine enemies, break forth into any unadvised speeches, or any expressions of impatience, distrust...
EVENING PSALM IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS. A psalm of David, a prayer for deliverance from afflictions and from the enemies who cause them....
1-4 Make haste unto me. Those that know how to value God's gracious presence, will be the more fervent in their prayers. When presented through the sacrifice and intercession of the Saviour, they will...
That I may not through mine own infirmity, and the great provocations of mine enemies, break forth into any unadvised speeches, or any expressions of impatience, or distrust, or envy, or malice, &c. M...
Psalms 141:3 Set H7896 (H8798) guard H8108 LORD H3068 mouth H6310 watch H5341 (H8798) door H1817 lips H8193 Set a watch - Psalms 17:3-5, Psalms 39:1, Psalms 71:8; Micah 7:5;...
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...
THE DOOR OF OUR LIPS Set a watch, O Lord, before ray mouth; Keep the door of my lips. Psalms 141:3. I WANT to speak to you about a door which we all own. It is a red folding door with two halves wh...
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. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTag...
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....
James 1:26; James 3:2; Micah 7:5; Psalms 17:3; Psalms 39:1; Psalms 71:8...