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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Concluding expression of confidence, with prayer for preservation and
deliverance....
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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....
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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...
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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
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Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of
the workers of iniquity.
KEEP ME FROM THE SNARES - literally, 'keep me from the hands of the
snare' (i:e., the power; in )....
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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....
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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?" ...
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Comp. Psalms 25:15....
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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.”)...
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שָׁמְרֵ֗נִי מִ֣ ידֵי פַ֭ח יָ֣קְשׁוּ
לִ֑י וּ֝
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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...
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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...
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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-...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ....
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_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...
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EVENING PSALM IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS.
A psalm of David, a prayer for deliverance from afflictions and from
the enemies who cause them....
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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...
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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Jeremiah 18:22; Luke 20:20; Proverbs 13:14; Psalms 119:110; P