Psalms 140:4

4 God, keep me out of the clutch of these wicked ones, protect me from these vicious people;

Psalms 140:4 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 140:4

Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked
From falling into their hands, and the weight of them}; and from their laying hands on him, being men of power and authority;

preserve me from the violent man:
or men, everyone of them; (See Gill on Psalms 140:1);

who have purposed to overthrow my goings:
to supplant him; to cause him to stumble and fall, to his disgrace and reproach; and that they might take an advantage of him, and an occasion against him. Arama interprets it, to drive me out of the land of Israel; see ( 1 Samuel 26:1 1 Samuel 26:9 ) . So Christ's enemies thought to have supplanted him, and have found something against him, to accuse him of to Caesar, ( Matthew 22:15-22 ) .

Psalms 140:4 In-Context

2 All they do is think up new ways to be bad; they spend their days plotting war games.

3 They practice the sharp rhetoric of hate and hurt, speak venomous words that maim and kill.

4 God, keep me out of the clutch of these wicked ones, protect me from these vicious people;

5 Stuffed with self-importance, they plot ways to trip me up, determined to bring me down. These crooks invent traps to catch me and do their best to incriminate me.

6 I prayed, "God, you're my God! Listen, God! Mercy!