10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that *I* withal pass over.
Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net which he hath hidden catch himself: for destruction let him fall therein.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath was appeased.
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the afflicted and needy, to slay those that are upright in [the] way: their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
But God will shoot an arrow at them: suddenly are they wounded; By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another: all that see them shall flee away.
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Commentary on Psalms 141 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 141
David was in distress when he penned this psalm, pursued, it is most likely, by Saul, that violent man. Is any distressed? Let him pray; David did so, and had the comfort of it.
The mercy and grace of God are as necessary to us as they were to him, and therefore we should be humbly earnest for them in singing this psalm.
A psalm of David.
Psa 141:1-4
Mercy to accept what we do well, and grace to keep us from doing ill, are the two things which we are here taught by David's example to pray to God for.
Psa 141:5-10
Here,