9 Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.
The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)
Sinners have put a net to take me; but I was true to your orders.
When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning men away from the nets of death.
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Commentary on Psalms 141 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 141
David was in distress when he penned this psalm, pursued, it is most likely, by Saul, that violent man. Is any distressed? Let him pray; David did so, and had the comfort of it.
The mercy and grace of God are as necessary to us as they were to him, and therefore we should be humbly earnest for them in singing this psalm.
A psalm of David.
Psa 141:1-4
Mercy to accept what we do well, and grace to keep us from doing ill, are the two things which we are here taught by David's example to pray to God for.
Psa 141:5-10
Here,