Psalms 141:9 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 141:9

Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

KJV

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ASV

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, And from the gins of the workers of iniquity.

WEB

Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.

YLT

Keep me from the gin they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.

DBT

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

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Psalms 91:3
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Psalms 35:8
Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Psalms 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
Psalms 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
Luke 20:20
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. 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. David loved prayer, and he begs of God that his prayers might be heard and answered,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): " Keep me from being taken in the snare they have laid for me; give me to discover it and to evade it." Be the gin placed with ever so much subtlety, God can and will secure his people from being taken in it. That God would, in justice, turn the designs of his enemies upon themselves, and, in mercy, deliver him from being ruined by them (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 141:9PSA 119:110 PSA 140:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 141:9PSA 140:5 PSA 35:7
PSA 141:9PSA 140:5 PSA 142:3
PSA 141:9LUK 20:20 LUK 11:54
PSA 141:9PRO 13:14 PRO 14:27
PSA 141:9PRO 13:14 PRO 10:11
PSA 141:9PSA 140:5 JER 18:22
PSA 141:9PSA 119:110 PSA 119:95

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