(KJV) Psalm 1411

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⥃Come Quickly to Me [ Psalms 70:1–5 ]

A Psalm of David.

[1] Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste2 unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.3 [2] Let my prayer4 be set forth5 before thee [as] incense6; [and] the lifting7 up of my hands [as] the evening8 sacrifice. [3] Set a watch9, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. [4] Incline not10 my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise11 wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me12 not eat of their dainties. [5] Let the righteous13 smite14 me; [it shall be] a kindness: and let him reprove me; [it shall be] an excellent oil, [which] shall not break my head: for yet my15 prayer also [shall be] in their calamities. [6] When their judges16 are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear17 my words; for they18 are sweet. [7] Our bones19 are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth. [8] But mine eyes20 [are] unto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute21. [9] Keep me from the snares22 [which] they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity. [10] Let the wicked23 fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape24.

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  1. Ps 141:1, David prays that his suit may be acceptable; Ps 141:3, his conscience sincere; Ps 141:7, and his life free from snares. ↩

  2. Ps 40:13, Ps 69:17-18, Ps 70:5, Ps 71:12, Ps 143:7; Job 7:21 ↩

  3. am 2946, bc 1058 ↩

  4. David, who was now driven from Judea, and far from the sanctuary, here prays that the devotion of his heart, and the elevation of his hands, might be accepted; that the one might ascend to heaven fragrant and well pleasing as the cloud of incense, and the other, in conjunction with it, be prevalent as the minchah, or evening oblation. Prov 15:8 ↩

  5. Heb. directed, Ps 5:3 ↩

  6. Exod 30:7-9, Exod 30:34-38; Lev 10:1-2, Lev 16:11-13; Num 16:35, Num 16:46-48; Mal 1:11; Luke 1:9-10; Rev 5:8, Rev 8:3-4 ↩

  7. Ps 28:2, Ps 63:4, Ps 134:2; 1Tim 2:8 ↩

  8. Exod 29:39, Exod 29:42; 1Kgs 18:36; Ezra 9:4; Dan 9:21; Acts 3:1 ↩

  9. Ps 17:3-5, Ps 39:1, Ps 71:8; Mic 7:5; Jas 1:26, Jas 3:2 ↩

  10. Ps 119:36; Deut 2:30, Deut 29:4; 1Kgs 8:58, 1Kgs 22:22; Isa 63:17; Matt 6:13; Jas 1:13 ↩

  11. 1Cor 15:33; 2Cor 6:17; Rev 18:4 ↩

  12. Num 25:2; Prov 23:1-3, Prov 23:6-8; Dan 1:5-8; Acts 10:13-14; 1Cor 10:27-28, 1Cor 10:31 ↩

  13. 1Sam 25:31-34; 2Sam 12:7-13; 2Chr 16:7-10, 2Chr 25:16; Prov 6:23, Prov 9:8-9; Prov 15:5, Prov 15:22, Prov 19:25, Prov 25:12, Prov 27:5-6; Gal 2:11-14, Gal 6:1; Rev 3:19 ↩

  14. etc. or, smite me kindly and reprove me; let not their precious oil break my head, etc ↩

  15. Ps 51:18, Ps 125:4; Matt 5:44; 2Tim 1:16-18; Jas 5:14-16 ↩

  16. 1Sam 31:1-8; 2Sam 1:17-27; 1Chr 10:1-7 ↩

  17. 2Sam 2:4, 2Sam 5:1-3; 1Chr 11:1-3, 1Chr 12:38 ↩

  18. Ps 45:2; 2Sam 2:5-6, 2Sam 23:1; 1Chr 13:2; Luke 4:22 ↩

  19. Ps 44:22; 1Sam 22:18-19; Rom 8:36; 2Cor 1:9; Heb 11:37; Rev 11:8-9 ↩

  20. Ps 25:15, Ps 123:1-2; 2Chr 20:12 ↩

  21. Heb. make not my soul bare, Ps 25:16-17, Ps 102:17, Ps 143:3-4; Isa 41:17; John 14:18 ↩

  22. Ps 119:110, Ps 140:5, Ps 142:3; Prov 13:14; Jer 18:22; Luke 20:20 ↩

  23. Ps 7:15-16, Ps 35:8, Ps 37:14-15, Ps 64:7-8, Ps 140:9; Esth 7:10; Prov 11:8 ↩

  24. Heb. pass over ↩