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3Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
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If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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. I. David loved prayer, and he begs of God that his prayers might be heard and answered, Ps. 141:1 , 2 . David cried unto God . His crying denotes fervency in prayer; he prayed as one in earnest. His crying to God denotes faith and fixedness in pra…
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