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**To the chief Musician.** See App-64 .
**Title. A Psalm.** Hebrew. *mizmor.* See App-65 .
**of David** = by David.
**LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**the evil** = an evil man. Hebrew. *ra'a'* . App-44 . man. Hebrew. *'adam.* App-14 .
**man.** Hebrew ' *i* s *h* . App-14 .

**Which** = Who.
**mischiefs.** Not the same word as in [Psalms 140:9](../../../kjv/psalms/140/9) , but the same word as "evil" in [Psalms 140:1](../../../kjv/psalms/140/1) .

**tongues.** Singular. See note on [Psalms 140:11](../../../kjv/psalms/140/11) . Quoted in [Romans 3:13](../../../kjv/romans/3/13) .
**Selah.** Connecting the evil with the prayer to be delivered; thus marking the Structure ( App-66 )

**wicked** = lawless. Hebrew. *rasha'.* App-41 .

**by the wayside.** See [Job 18:10](../../../kjv/job/18/10) .

**GOD.** Hebrew El App-4 .

**GOD the Lord.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* Adonai. App-4 . (2).
**of.** Genitive of character = my saving strength. covered = screened or protected. Not the same word as in [Psalms 140:9](../../../kjv/psalms/140/9) .

**wicked.** Hebrew. *rasha'.* Singular. App-44 . The same word as in [Psalms 140:4](../../../kjv/psalms/140/4) .
**wicked device** = devices or plots. Occurs only here.

**those that compass me about** = one word in Hebrew.
**mischief** = labour, toil Hebrew. *'amal.* App-44 .
**cover** = overwhelm. Not the same word as in [Psalms 140:7](../../../kjv/psalms/140/7) .

**burning coals.** Put by Figure of speech *Metony* m *y* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for cruel words and hard speeches which wound the heart as fire wounds the body. Compare [Proverbs 16:27](../../../kjv/proverbs/16/27) ; [Proverbs 26:23](../../../kjv/proverbs/26/23) .
**that they, &c.** = let them not, &c.

**evil speaker.** Hebrew a man of tongue; not "a man of lips" (= talkative. [Job 11:2](../../../kjv/job/11/2) ), but with an evil motive = a slanderer. Compare [Psalms 140:3](../../../kjv/psalms/140/3) .
**Evil shall hunt** = Let evil hunt.

**the afflicted** = a poor one.
**the poor** = helpless ones.

**name.** See note on [Psalms 20:1](../../../kjv/psalms/20/1) .
**dwell in Thy presence.** Compare [Psalms 11:7](../../../kjv/psalms/11/7) ; [Psalms 16:11](../../../kjv/psalms/16/11) .

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