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.
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
Prayer is a spiritual sacrifice, the lifting up of the soul and its best affections to God. David begs that his crying be heard not for its loudness but for its liveliness, and that God would set his prayer before Him as the incense daily burnt on the golden altar.
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Commenting on Psalm 141:1-4
God does not incline men's hearts to sin by any physical force; that would be repugnant to His nature. But He may be said to do so when He suffers men to follow their own sinful inclinations and leaves them to be tempted by their corruptions and by Satan, which the psalmist here deprecates.
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