Psalms 141:9
Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 mine eyes looke vnto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust: leaue not my soule destitute.
10Let the wicked fall into his nettes together, whiles I escape.
Cross References
Psalms 57:7Mine heart is prepared, O God, mine heart is prepared: I will sing and giue prayse.
Psalms 119:110The wicked haue layed a snare for mee: but I swarued not from thy precepts.
Psalms 142:3Though my spirit was in perplexitie in me, yet thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked, haue they priuily layde a snare for me.
Proverbs 13:14The instruction of a wise man is as the welspring of life, to turne away from the snares of death.
Luke 20:20And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should faine themselues iust men, to take him in his talke, and to deliuer him vnto the power and authoritie of the gouernour.
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 →