9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way-side; they have set traps for me. Selah.
The wicked have laid a snare for me; but I have not wandered from thy precepts.
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then *thou* knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they hidden a snare for me.
The teaching of the wise [man] is a fountain of life, to turn away 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,