9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, From the traps of the workers of iniquity.
The proud have hidden a snare for me, They have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
The wicked have laid a snare for me, Yet I haven't gone astray from your precepts.
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in which I walk, They have hidden a snare for me.
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, To turn from the 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,