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Psalm 140 (141) Brenton's English Septuagint

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  • OT: Septuagint (Greek)
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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 141 · About the recordings

Notes on this text (3)

Psalm 140 in Brenton = Psalm 141 in WEB.

Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried to thee; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to thee.
141:1 A Psalm by David. Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; the lifting up of my hands [as] an evening sacrifice.
141:2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about my lips.
141:3 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to evil things, to employ pretexts for sins, with men who work iniquity: and let me not unite with their choice ones.
141:4 Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
5 The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: for yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures.
141:5 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
6 Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
141:6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
7 As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the [mouth of] the grave.
141:7 “As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”
8 For mine eyes are to thee, O Lord God: I have hoped in thee; take not away my life.
141:8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. I take refuge in you. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
9 Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling-blocks of them that work iniquity.
141:9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
10 Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.
141:10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.
Cross references (10)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in Brenton.

  1. 1 Psalm 70:5; Psalm 40:13; Psalm 71:12; Psalm 143:7; Psalm 69:17–18
  2. 2 Revelation 8:3–4; Revelation 5:8; 1 Timothy 2:8; Daniel 9:21; Malachi 1:11
  3. 3 James 1:26; Psalm 39:1; Micah 7:5; Psalm 34:13; James 3:2
  4. 4 Matthew 6:13; Psalm 119:36; Isaiah 63:17; 1 Corinthians 15:33; 2 Corinthians 6:17
  5. 5 Ecclesiastes 7:5; Revelation 3:19; Galatians 6:1; Proverbs 27:5–6; Proverbs 25:12
  6. 6 2 Chronicles 25:12; Psalm 45:2; 2 Samuel 5:1–3; 1 Samuel 31:1–8; 1 Chronicles 12:38
  7. 7 Psalm 53:5; Romans 8:36; Psalm 44:22; Revelation 11:8–9; 1 Samuel 22:18–19
  8. 8 Psalm 123:1–2; 2 Chronicles 20:12; Isaiah 41:17; Psalm 102:17; Psalm 25:15–17
  9. 9 Psalm 140:5; Luke 20:20; Psalm 119:110; Proverbs 13:14; Psalm 38:12
  10. 10 Psalm 35:8; Psalm 140:9; Psalm 64:7–8; Esther 7:10; Proverbs 11:8

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 141.

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXL)

    What this Psalm containeth, I believe that ye perceived when it was being chanted; for therein the Church of Christ, set in the midst of the wicked, complaineth and groaneth, and poureth out prayer to God.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 141:5 Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians (Chapters LIII–LVIII)

    … yet hath not given me over to death." "For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth." "The righteous," saith it, "shall chasten me in mercy, and reprove me; but let not the oil of sinners make fat my head." And again he saith, "Blessed is the man whom the Lord reproveth, and reject not …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 141:3 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book V, Chapters IX–X)

    Not yet, therefore, hadst Thou set a watch before my mouth, and kept the door of my lips, that my heart might not incline to wicked speeches, to make excuses of sins, with men that work iniquity --and, therefore, was I still united with their "Elect."

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  4. Quotes verse 141:2 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XVI)

    For as to this also being a sacrifice, hear what the prophet saith: "A sacrifice of praise will glorify me;" and again, "Sacrifice to God a sacrifice of praise;" and, "The lifting up of mine hands is an evening sacrifice." So that if it be but a prayer, which thou art offering in such a frame of mind, it were …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  5. Quotes verse 141:2 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily LXXIII)

    But first listen to what thou sayest in the Psalm, "Let my prayer be set forth in Thy sight as incense." When then not incense, but a stinking smoke arises from thee, and from thy deeds, what punishment dost thou not deserve to undergo?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)