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description: "Title. A Psalm of David. Same as 140.  LORD. Hebrew.  Jehovah. App-4 .  enter not. As in Job 9:32 ; Job 22:4 .  in Thy sight. Compare 1 Samuel 16:7 . Isa"
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**Title. A Psalm of David.** Same as 140.
**LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .

**enter not.** As in [Job 9:32](../../../kjv/job/9/32) ; [Job 22:4](../../../kjv/job/22/4) .
**in Thy sight.** Compare [1 Samuel 16:7](../../../kjv/1-samuel/16/7) . [Isaiah 55:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/55/8) . [Job 14:3](../../../kjv/job/14/3) .
**no man** = no one. Compare [Job 15:14](../../../kjv/job/15/14) , [Job 15:15](../../../kjv/job/15/15) .
**be justified** = stand or appear [before Thee] just. The verb is Active. Septuagint, Authorized Version, and Revised Version render it passive. Compare [Romans 3:20](../../../kjv/romans/3/20) . [Galatians 1:2](../../../kjv/galatians/1/2) , [Galatians 1:16](../../../kjv/galatians/1/16) .

**persecuted** = pursued.
**my soul** = me (emphatic). Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .

**my spirit** = me. Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 . Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part), App-6 , put for the whole person, for emphasis.
**overwhelmed.** Same word as [Psalms 77:3](../../../kjv/psalms/77/3) ; [Psalms 107:5](../../../kjv/psalms/107/5) ; [Psalms 142:3](../../../kjv/psalms/142/3) .

**remember.** Compare [Psalms 77:5](../../../kjv/psalms/77/5) , [Psalms 77:10](../../../kjv/psalms/77/10) , [Psalms 77:11](../../../kjv/psalms/77/11) .
**muse** = talk with myself. t
**he work of Thy hands.** Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "works" (plural)

**as.** Some codices, with seven early printed editions, read "in".
**Selah.** Connecting and returning to prayer (7-11) as the consequence of the reflection (5, 6). This is the last Selah (of seventy-one) in the Psalms. For three others, see- [Habakkuk 3:3](../../../kjv/habakkuk/3/3) , [Habakkuk 3:9](../../../kjv/habakkuk/3/9) , [Habakkuk 3:13](../../../kjv/habakkuk/3/13) . See App-66 .

**the pit** = a grave. Hebrew. *bor.* A sepulchre, as hewn out of the rock. Hence rendered cistern, or dry pit. Compare [Genesis 37:20](../../../kjv/genesis/37/20) . See note on [Genesis 21:19](../../../kjv/genesis/21/19) .

**lovingkindness:** or grace.
**trust** = confide. Hebrew. *batah.* App-69 .

**Deliver me** = pluck me [out of the hands of].
**flee.** Authorized Version, 1611, reads "fly". Since 1629 the reading is "flee".
**unto.** Some codices, with one early printed edition and Septuagint, read "in". Compare [Psalms 143:8](../../../kjv/psalms/143/8) .

**will** = good pleasure.
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .
**Spirit.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 .
**lead, &c.** = It will lead.
**land.** Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "way"; others, with Syriac, read "path". Compare [Psalms 27:11](../../../kjv/psalms/27/11) .

**Quicken me** = Give, or preserve me in life. See note || on p. 827.
**name's.** See note on [Psalms 20:1](../../../kjv/psalms/20/1) .

**mercy** = lovingkindness, or grace.
**enemies.** Compare Structure, [Psalms 143:3](../../../kjv/psalms/143/3) .

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