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Psalms 141:3
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Set a guard, O Lord , over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
Set a watch, O Lorde, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my lips.
Lord, set up a guard for my mouth;keep watch at the door of my lips.
Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
Lord , help me control what I say. Don't let me say anything bad.
Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips [to keep me from speaking thoughtlessly].
Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.
Help me to guard my words whenever I say something.
Set a guard, Adonai , over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
Set a guard, O LORD, to my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
Set a watch (O Lord) before my mouth: keepe the doore of my lips.
Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my tips.
Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.
O Jehovah, set a guard to my mouth; keep watch on the door of my lips.
Lord , help me control my tongue; help me be careful about what I say.
O Lord , place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips!
Take control of what I say, O Lord , and guard my lips.
O Lord, put a watch over my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Set thou, O Yahweh, a watch at my mouth, Keep thou guard over the door of my lips.
(140-3) Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips,
Lord , place a guard at my mouth, a sentry at the door of my lips.
Set a guard, LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Set a watch, O Lord , before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Set a watch O God before my mouth: and kepe the doore of my lippes.
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord ; keep watch over the door of my lips.
Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Lord, sette thou a keping to my mouth; and a dore of stonding aboute to my lippis.
Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD, keep watch over the door of my lips!
Set a watch, O Yahweh, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Set a watch (o LORDE) before my mouth, yee a watch at the dore of my lippes.
Post a guard at my mouth, God , set a watch at the door of my lips. Don't let me so much as dream of evil or thoughtlessly fall into bad company. And these people who only do wrong— don't let them lure me with their sweet talk! May the Just One set me straight, may the Kind One correct me, Don't let sin anoint my head. I'm praying hard against their evil ways! Oh, let their leaders be pushed off a high rock cliff; make them face the music. Like a rock pulverized by a maul, let their bones be scattered at the gates of hell.
Set a guard, O Lord , over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth;Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Set a watch: Psalms 17:3-5, Psalms 39:1, Psalms 71:8, Micah 7:5, James 1:26, James 3:2
Reciprocal: Psalms 106:33 - he spake Psalms 119:29 - Remove
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth,.... While praying, as Jarchi and Kimchi; that he might not utter any rash, unguarded, and unbecoming word; but take and use the words which God gives, even the taught words of the Holy Ghost; or lest, being under affliction and oppression, he should speak unadvisedly with his lips, and utter any impatient murmuring and repining word against God; or express any fretfulness at the prosperity of the wicked, or speak evil of them; especially of Saul, the Lord's anointed, for the ill usage of him;
keep the door of my lips; which are as a door that opens and shuts: this he desires might be kept as with a bridle, especially while the wicked were before him; lest he should say anything they would use against him, and to the reproach of religion; and that no corrupt communication, or any foolish and filthy talk, or idle and unprofitable words, might proceed from them. The phrase signifies the same as the other; he was sensible of his own inability to keep a proper watch and guard over his words, as was necessary, and therefore prays the Lord to do it; see Psalms 39:1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth - That I may not say anything rashly, unadvisedly, improperly. Compare Psalms 39:1. The prayer here is, that God would guard him from the temptation to say something wrong. To this he seems to have been prompted by the circumstances of the case, and by the advice of those who were with him. See introduction to the psalm. Compare the notes at Psalms 11:1.
Keep the door of my lips - That my lips or mouth may not open except when it is proper and right; when something good and true is to be said. Nothing can be more proper than “this” prayer; nothing more desirable than that God should keep us from saying what we ought not to say.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 141:3. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth — While there are so many spies on my actions and words, I have need to be doubly guarded, that my enemies may have no advantage against me. Some think the prayer is against impatience; but if he were now going to Gath, it is more natural to suppose that he was praying to be preserved from dishonouring the truth, and from making sinful concessions in a heathen land; and at a court where, from his circumstances, it was natural to suppose he might be tempted to apostasy by the heathen party. The following verse seems to support this opinion.
