9 Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers, from the snares they have laid for me.
9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
9 Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers!
9 Protect me from their evil scheming, from all their demonic subterfuge.
9 Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, And from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
9 Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 141:9
Commentary on Psalm 141:5-10
(Read Psalm 141:5-10)
We should be ready to welcome the rebuke of our heavenly Father, and also the reproof of our brethren. It shall not break my head, if it may but help to break my heart: we must show that we take it kindly. Those who slighted the word of God before, will be glad of it when in affliction, for that opens the ear to instruction. When the world is bitter, the word is sweet. Let us lift our prayer unto God. Let us entreat him to rescue us from the snares of Satan, and of all the workers of iniquity. In language like this psalm, O Lord, would we entreat that our poor prayers should set forth our only hope, our only dependence on thee. Grant us thy grace, that we may be prepared for this employment, being clothed with thy righteousness, and having all the gifts of thy Spirit planted in our hearts.