141:1 <> LORD, I {a} cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee. (a) He shows that there is no other refuge in our necessity but only to flee to God for comfort of soul. 141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and] the {b} lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice. (b) He means his earnest zeal and gesture, which he used in prayer: alluding to the sacrifices which were by God's commandment offered in the old law. 141:3 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. 141:4 Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their {d} dainties. (d) Let not their prosperity lure me to be wicked as they are. 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; [it shall be] a kindness: and let {e} him reprove me; [it shall be] an excellent oil, [which] shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also [shall be] in their calamities. (e) He could abide all corrections that came from a loving heart. 141:6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall {g} hear my words; for they are sweet. (g) The people who follow their wicked rulers in persecuting the prophet will repent and turn to God, when they see their wicked rulers punished. 141:7 Our bones are scattered at the {h} grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth. (h) Here it appears that David was miraculously delivered out of many deaths as in 2Co 1:9,10. 141:10 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. | |