Psalms 141:9
Keep me from the trap they laid for me, || Even snares of workers of iniquity.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
In Context
8But to You, O YHWH, my Lord, [are] my eyes, || In You I have trusted, || Do not make my soul bare.
10The wicked fall in their dragnets together, until I pass over!
Cross References
Psalms 57:7My heart is prepared, O God, || My heart is prepared, || I sing and praise.
Psalms 119:110The wicked have laid a snare for me, || And I did not wander from your precepts.
Psalms 142:3When my spirit has been feeble in me, || Then You have known my path; In the way [in] which I walk, || They have hid a snare for me.
Proverbs 13:14The law of the wise [is] a fountain of life, || To turn aside from snares of death.
Luke 20:20And having watched [Him], they sent forth ones lying in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of His word, to deliver Him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 141:6-10
Reproofs of the Righteous; Complaints and Petitions. 5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let 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. 6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. 7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. 8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave… Read the whole commentary →