Salmos 140

1 Salmo 140
Para el director del coro: salmo de David.
Oh Señor
, rescátame de los malvados;
protégeme de los que son violentos,

2 de quienes traman el mal en el corazón
y causan problemas todo el día.

3 Su lengua pica como una serpiente;
veneno de víbora gotea de sus labios.
Interludio

4 Oh Señor
, líbrame de la mano de los perversos;
protégeme de los violentos
porque traman un complot en mi contra.

5 Los orgullosos tendieron una trampa para atraparme;
extendieron una red;
colocaron trampas a lo largo del camino.
Interludio

6 Le dije al Señor
: «¡Tú eres mi Dios!».
¡Escucha, oh Señor
, mis súplicas por misericordia!

7 Oh Señor
Soberano, tú eres el poderoso que me rescató.
Tú me protegiste en el día de la batalla.

8 Señor
, no permitas que los malvados se salgan con la suya;
no dejes que prosperen sus maquinaciones malignas
porque se volverán orgullosos.
Interludio

9 Que mis enemigos sean destruidos
por el mismo mal que han planeado contra mí.

10 Que les caigan carbones encendidos sobre la cabeza;
que sean arrojados al fuego
o a pozos llenos de agua donde no haya escapatoria.

11 No dejes que los mentirosos prosperen en nuestra tierra;
haz que les caigan grandes calamidades a los violentos.

12 Pero a los que ellos persiguen, yo sé que el Señor
los ayudará
y hará justicia a los pobres.

13 Sin duda, los rectos alaban tu nombre;
los justos vivirán en tu presencia.

Salmos 140 Commentary

Chapter 140

David encourages himself in God. (1-7) He prays for, and prophesies the destruction of, his persecutors. (8-13)

Verses 1-7 The more danger appears, the more earnest we should be in prayer to God. All are safe whom the Lord protects. If he be for us, who can be against us? We should especially watch and pray, that the Lord would hold up our goings in his ways, that our footsteps slip not. God is as able to keep his people from secret fraud as from open force; and the experience we have had of his power and care, in dangers of one kind, may encourage us to depend upon him in other dangers.

Verses 8-13 Believers may pray that God would not grant the desires of the wicked, nor further their evil devices. False accusers will bring mischief upon themselves, even the burning coals of Divine vengeance. And surely the righteous shall dwell in God's presence, and give him thanks for evermore. This is true thanksgiving, even thanks-living: this use we should make of all our deliverances, we should serve God the more closely and cheerfully. Those who, though evil spoken of and ill-used by men, are righteous in the sight of God, being justified by the righteousness of Christ, which is imputed to them, and received by faith, as the effect of which, they live soberly and righteously; these give thanks to the Lord, for the righteousness whereby they are made righteous, and for every blessing of grace, and mercy of life.

Chapter Summary

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. This psalm, A ben Ezra says, was composed by David before he was king; and Kimchi says, it is concerning Doeg and the Ziphites, who calumniated him to Saul; and, according to our English contents, it is a prayer of David to be delivered from Saul and Doeg. The Syriac inscription is, "said by David, when Saul threw a javelin at him to kill him, but it struck the wall; but, spiritually, the words of him that cleaves to God, and contends with his enemies." R. Obadiah says, it was made at the persecution of David by Saul, which was before the kingdom of David; as the persecution (of Gog) is before the coming of the Messiah. It is indeed before his spiritual coming, but not before his coming in the flesh; and David may be very well considered in the psalm as a type of Christ, for he was particularly so in his sufferings, as well as in other things.