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Psalms 141:8-10

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.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 141:8. _BUT MINE EYES_ ARE _UNTO THEE_] In all times, in all places, on all occasions, I will cleave unto the Lord, and put my whole confidence in him....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT MINE EYES ARE UNTO THEE, O GOD THE LORD - My hope is in thee. I do not rely on my own power. I do not trust in my armed forces. I know that they are weak, dispirited, scattered - like strewed bone...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOD THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ Adonai. App-4. IS MY TRUST. have. sought refuge. Hebrew. _hasah._ App-69. MY SOUL. me (emphatic). Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _But mine eyes_ The conjunction must be rendered For, which gives no sense in connexion with Psalms 141:7. It must introduce the reason for the prayers of Psalms 141:1, or for the resolution to contin...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Concluding expression of confidence, with prayer for preservation and deliverance....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT MINE EYES, &C.— When we reflect upon the surprising generosity of David towards Saul, it naturally excites one's curiosity to know the principle upon which he acted. A conduct so extraordinary mus...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. BUT MINE EYES ARE UNTO THEE, O GOD - in the midst of our scattered and almost extinct state (Psalms 14...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    141:8 destitute. (g-18) Or 'Let not my soul be laid bare' or 'poured out.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BUT] better, 'for.' LEAVE NOT, etc.] RM 'Pour not out my soul,' i.e.let me not die: cp. Isaiah 53:12....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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?" ...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Comp. Psalms 25:15....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י אֵלֶ֨יךָ ׀ יְהֹוִ֣ה אֲדֹנָ֣י עֵינָ֑י בְּכָ֥ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

      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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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-...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Prison. Or the cave. (Calmet) --- As David was never in prison, this is more applicable to Christ, seized by his enemies, and consigned to the tomb. (Houbigant) --- Name. God expects it from us, Psalm...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8._Because to thee, O Jehovah _! _etc_. If we reflect upon what was comprehended under the previous figure of their bones being broken, his praying in such circumstances is just as if the torn fragmen...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT MINE EYES ARE UNTO THEE, O GOD THE LORD,.... Not only the eyes of his body, lifted up to God in prayer, this being a prayer gesture, John 11:41; but the eyes of his mind, or understanding, especia...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _But mine eyes [are] unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute._ Ver. 8. _But mine eyes are unto thee_] Afflictions to the saints are _tanquam scalae et alae,_ to mo...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But mine eyes are unto thee_ But in this sore distress I fix my thoughts on thee, _O God, the Lord_, the only living and true God, and governor of all things; _in thee is my trust_, &c. In thee I rep...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    EVENING PSALM IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS. A psalm of David, a prayer for deliverance from afflictions and from the enemies who cause them....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But mine eyes are unto Thee, fixed upon Him in confident hope, O GOD THE LORD, the All-powerful; IN THEE IS MY TRUST; LEAVE NOT MY SOUL DESTITUTE, pouring it out, depriving it of its hold on His mercy...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    LEAVE NOT MY SOUL DESTITUTE: _ Heb._ make not my soul bare...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Or, _naked_, as this word signifies, PSALMS 137:7, and Aaron is said to have _made the people naked_, EXODUS 32:25, i.e. deprived of thy favour and protection. Or, _do not pour out my soul_, to wit, u...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 141:8 eyes H5869 GOD H3069 Lord H136 refuge H2620 (H8804) leave H6168 soul H5315 destitute H6168 ...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 141:7 The text presents three contrasts, which we shall do well to consider. I. Our union with past generations and the intense reality of our present life. Observe the use of the word "our:...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth._ THE SCATTERED BONES AND THE UPLIFTED LOOK The text presents in a very vivid way an aspect of death most familiar, but most striking, and it also expres...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 20:12; Isaiah 41:17; John 14:18; Psalms 102:17;...

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