Psalm 140:4
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Keep me safe, LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from the violent, who devise ways to trip my feet.
Read Psalm 140:4 Using Other Translations
Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have planned to trip up my feet.
O LORD, keep me out of the hands of the wicked. Protect me from those who are violent, for they are plotting against me.
What does Psalm 140:4 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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 ) .
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