Psalms 140:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 140

⁴Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

Psalms 140:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 36:11
Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Psalms 17:5
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
Psalms 71:4
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Psalms 17:8-9
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, …
Psalms 55:1-3
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Anger Cruelty Hatred Heart Malice Retaliation Scoffing

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

In this, as in other things, David was a type of Christ, that he suffered before he reigned, was humbled before he was exalted, and that as there were many who loved and valued him, and sought to do him honour, so there were many who hated and envied him, and sought to do him mischief, as appears by these verses, where, I. He gives a character of his enemies, and paints them out in their own colou…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

2-5. This character of the wicked, and the devices planned against the pious, correspond to Psa 10:7; 31:13; 58:4, &c.