1 > Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay.
Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.
Don't hide your face from your servant, For I am in distress. Answer me speedily! Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
> Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
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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,