10 The wicked fall in their nets together, till I pass over!
Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.
And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.
A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way. Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered.
And God doth shoot them `with' an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds, And they cause him to stumble, Against them `is' their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
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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,