Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 141:10
Comp. Psalms 7:15.
Withal. — Probably, altogether (“whilst I altogether escape”), which some join with the previous clause, “Let the wicked fall into their own nets together, whilst I escape.”
Comp. Psalms 7:15.
Withal. — Probably, altogether (“whilst I altogether escape”), which some join with the previous clause, “Let the wicked fall into their own nets together, whilst I escape.”
Verse Psalms 141:10. _LET THE WICKED FALL INTO THEIR OWN NETS_] This is generally the case; those who lay snares for others fall into them themselves. _Harm watch, harm catch_, says the old adage. Ho...
LET THE WICKED FALL INTO THEIR OWN NETS - See the notes at Psalms 35:8. Compare Psalms 7:15. WHILE THAT I WITHAL ESCAPE - Margin, as in Hebrew, “pass over.” While I safely pass over the net or snare w...
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...
THE WICKED. lawless ones. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. WITHAL. Same as "yet", Psalms 141:5. ESCAPE. pass on [in safety]....
Concluding expression of confidence, with prayer for preservation and deliverance....
_into their own nets_ Heb. _into his own nets_, i.e. each into his own net. "The enginer" is "hoist with his own petar." For the thought that the plots of the wicked recoil upon themselves cp. Psalms...
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
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. LET THE WICKED FALL INTO THEIR OWN NETS - (Psalms 140:9; Psalms 7:15.) WHILE THAT I WITHAL ESCAPE - literally, 'pass over.' ...
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?" ...
יִפְּל֣וּ בְ מַכְמֹרָ֣יו רְשָׁעִ֑ים יַ֥חַד אָ֝נֹכִ֗י...
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-...
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....
PSALM CXLI. (VOCE MEA.) A prayer of David in extremity of danger....
REFLECTIONS BLESSED Jesus! under the incense of thy merits, and with a steady unwearied eye looking to thee and thy one all-sufficient sacrifice, would my soul desire, morning by morning, and evening...
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...
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...
LET THE WICKED FALL INTO THEIR OWN NETS,.... Which they have laid for others, as they very often do; see Psalms 7:15; or "into his net" k, either Saul into his own net, and others with him, so Kimchi...
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. Ver. 10. _Let the wicked fall_] _Metaphora a piscibus,_ saith Tremellius, as fishes in casting nets, Isaiah 19:8 . _ Whilst that...
_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....
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, as a well-deserved punishment for their malicious persecution of the believer, WHILST THAT I WITHAL ESCAPE, all the wicked attempts of the godless thus coming...
ESCAPE: _ Heb._ pass over...
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...
INTO THEIR OWN NETS, Heb. _into his nets_; either into God's nets, the relative being put without the antecedent, as is usual in such cases, where it is easily understood; or, each INTO HIS OWN NETS,...
Psalms 141:10 wicked H7563 fall H5307 (H8799) nets H4364 escape H5674 (H8799) safely H3162 the wicked -...
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...
Esther 7:10; Proverbs 11:8; Psalms 140:9; Psalms 35:8; Psalms 37:14;...