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- Chapter 141 -

Come to me quickly

(Psalm 70:1-5)
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A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried out to you, hear me. Attend to my voice, when I cry out to you.
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Let my prayer be guided like incense in your sight: the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.
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O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.
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Do not turn aside my heart to words of malice, to making excuses for sins, with men who work iniquity; and I will not communicate, even with the best of them.
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The just one will correct me with mercy, and he will rebuke me. But do not allow the oil of the sinner to fatten my head. For my prayer will still be toward their good will.(a) (b) (c)
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Their judges have been engulfed, joined to the rocks. They will hear my words, which have prevailed,(d)
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as when the lava of the earth has erupted above ground. Our bones have been scattered beside Hell.
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For Lord, O Lord, my eyes look to you. In you, I have hoped. Do not take away my soul.
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Protect me from the snare that they have set up for me and from the scandals of those who work iniquity.
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The sinners will fall into his net. I am alone, until I pass over.(e)

Footnotes

(a)140:5 This last part is saying that we should not only pray for what sinners need, but even for what is pleasing to them, as long as it is good for them. Even though the Just One rebukes me, and God rightly keeps me from getting a fat head by association with sinners, I still pray for what sinners need and even whatever good things will please them.(Conte)
(b)140:5 Let not the oil of the sinner, etc:That is, the flattery, or deceitful praise.(Challoner)
(c)140:5 For my prayer, etc:So far from coveting their praises, who are never well pleased but with things that are evil; I shall continually pray to be preserved from such things as they are delighted with.(Challoner)
(d)140:6 Their judges, etc:Their rulers, or chiefs, quickly vanish and perish, like ships dashed against the rocks, and swallowed up by the waves. Let them then hear my words, for they are powerful and will prevail; or, as it is in the Hebrew, for they are sweet.(Challoner)
(e)140:10 I am alone, etc:Singularly protected by the Almighty, until I pass all their nets and snares.(Challoner)

Come to me quickly

(Psalm 70:1-5)
1
LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
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Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
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Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
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Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
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Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
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Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
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“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”(a)
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For my eyes are on you, LORD, the Lord. I take refuge in you. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
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Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
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Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.

Footnotes

(a)141:7 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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