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Psalms 141:4 open_in_new
Incline not — Suffer it not to be inclined. Heart — Keep me not only from wicked speeches, but from all evil motions of my heart. Dainties — The pleasures or advantages which they gain by their wickedness.
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Psalms 141:5 open_in_new
Smite — By reproofs. Break — Not hurt, but heal and greatly refresh me. Calamities — In the calamities of those righteous persons who reproved him. When they came into such calamities as those wherein he was involved he would pity them and pray for them.
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Psalms 141:6 open_in_new
Judges — The chief of mine enemies. Overthrown — Or, cast down headlong by thine exemplary vengeance. Hear — Hearken unto my counsels and offers which now they despise.
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Psalms 141:7 open_in_new
Our bones — Our case is almost as hopeless as of those who are dead, and whose bones are scattered in several places.