An evening prayer for sanctification and protection
This title in the NASB
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| 1 ¶ <<A Psalm of
David.>> 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. |
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- Make haste David sounds a little
impatient. We may assume that this expresses the earnestness of his prayer.
2 - As incense The incense represented prayer re0803. |
| 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. |
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¶ 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. |
5 - Which shall not break my head The text here is not altogether clear in the Hebrew. "Let not my head refuse it; for yet my prayer shall also be against their evils." (J.P. Green, literal translation with supplied words, as he indicates, in italics.) |
| 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. |
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