Psalms 141:1-6

1 O LORD, I call upon you; ¹hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you!

2 Let ²my prayer be counted as incense before you, and ³the lifting up of my hands as ⁴the evening sacrifice!

3 ⁵Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; ⁶keep watch over the door of my lips!

4 ⁷Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who ⁸work iniquity, and ⁹let me not eat of their delicacies!

5 ¹⁰Let a righteous man strike me--it is a kindness; let him rebuke me--it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet ¹¹my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.

6 When their judges are ¹²thrown over the cliff,^[a] then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.

Psalms 141:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 141

\\<>\\. This psalm was written about the same time, and upon the same occasion, as that going before and what follows after; even when David was persecuted by Saul, and when he was in great danger of his enemies, and snares were laid for his life.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 40:13; Psalms 70:5
• 2. Luke 1:10; Revelation 5:8; Revelation 8:3, 4
• 3. See Psalms 28:2
• 4. See Exodus 29:41
• 5. Psalms 34:13
• 6. Micah 7:5
• 7. Psalms 119:36
• 8. ver. 9; Psalms 94:4
• 9. Proverbs 23:6
• 10. [Proverbs 9:8; Proverbs 19:25; Proverbs 25:12; Proverbs 27:6; Ecclesiastes 7:5]
• 11. [Psalms 109:4]
• 12. 2 Chronicles 25:12; [Luke 4:29]

Footnotes

• [a]. Or When their judges fall into the hands of the Rock