9 Keep me from the gin they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.
The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.
The wicked have laid a snare for me, And from thy precepts I wandered not.
When my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way `in' which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.
The law of the wise `is' a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.
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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,