Psalms 140:8
LORD, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7LORD, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
9As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:27were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted; the LORD has not done all this.’”
Job 5:12He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
Psalms 27:12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalms 144:10You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 140:2-8
Complaints and Petitions. 1 Deliver me, O Lord , from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; 2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. 4 Keep me, O Lord , from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. 5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins… Read the whole commentary →