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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. How...
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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...
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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 dist...
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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 accepta...
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THE WICKED. lawless ones. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44.
WITHAL. Same as "yet", Psalms 141:5.
ESCAPE. pass on [in safety]....
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Concluding expression of confidence, with prayer for preservation and
deliverance....
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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. Sta...
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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.'...
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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?" (MARK 8:36) (The soul is the part of us that...
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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.”...
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יִפְּל֣וּ בְ מַכְמֹרָ֣יו רְשָׁעִ֑ים
יַ֥חַד אָ֝נֹכִ֗י עַֽד ־אֶעֱבֹֽור׃...
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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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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....
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PSALM CXLI. (VOCE MEA.)
A prayer of David in extremity of danger....
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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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ESCAPE:
_ Heb._ pass over...
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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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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,...
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Psalms 141:10 wicked H7563 fall H5307 (H8799) nets H4364 escape H5674
(H8799) safely H3162
the wicked - Psalms 7:15-16, Psalms 35:8, Psalms 37:14-15, Psalms
64:7-8, Psalms 140:9;...
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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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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....
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Esther 7:10; Proverbs 11:8; Psalms 140:9; Psalms 35:8; Psalms 37:14;
Psalms 37:15; Psalms 64:7; Psalms 64:8; Psalms 7:15; Psalms 7:16...