Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.
David cried out with fervency, knowing that God hears the earnest prayer of faith. He desired above all that his prayers ascend before God like incense and the evening sacrifice, a spiritual offering that pleases Him far more than the loudness of his voice.
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Commenting on Psalm 141:1-10
This prayer cuts hard, and I confess it takes grace not to cry Amen to it. We all wish the innocent delivered and the guilty to reap what they have sown; there is nothing unjust in that. Yet Christ shows us a more excellent way.
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David welcomes reproof from the righteous as a kindness and a means of grace. We must desire correction for whatever is amiss in us, and receive it not with resentment but as a token of love that works toward our cure and keeps us from the dreadful judgment of being left alone in sin.
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Commenting on Psalm 141:5-10