--- title: "Psalms 141 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary" description: "Read Psalms 141 with clarkes commentary commentary. 1 LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee. 2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the li" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/clarkes-commentary/psalms/141" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/141)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/141)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/141) Audio 1 LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee. 2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee *as* incense; *and* the lifting up of my hands *as* the evening sacrifice.* 3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. 4 Incline not my heart to *any* evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. 5 Let the righteous smite me; *it shall be* a kindness: and let him reprove me; *it shall be* an excellent oil, *which* shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also *shall be* in their calamities.* 6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. 7 Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth *wood* upon the earth. 8 But mine eyes *are* unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.* 9 Keep me from the snares *which* they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity. 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.* [Psalms 140](/study/psalms/140) [Psalms 142](/study/psalms/142) ## Commentary To verse 1 This Psalm is generally attributed to *David*, and considered to have been composed during his persecution by Saul. Some suppose that he made it at the time that he formed the resolution to go to *Achish, king of Gath*; see [1 Samuel 27:1-3](/kjv/1-samuel/27/1-3). It is generally thought to be an *evening prayer*, and has long been used as such in the service of the Greek Church. It is in several places very obscure. Verse [Psalms 141:1](/kjv/psalms/141/1). ***Lord, I cry unto thee*** — Many of David's Psalms begin with *complaints*; but they are not those of *habitual plaint* and *peevishness*. He was in frequent troubles and difficulties, and he always sought help in God. He ever appears in earnest; at no time is there any evidence that the devotion of David was *formal*. He *prayed, meditated, supplicated, groaned, cried*, and even *roared*, as he tells us, for the disquietude of his soul. 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