The Bible Commentaries and Others: Psalms 140 v 8

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Posted by Psalms on Saturday, 23 January 2016

Psalms 140:8

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

140:8. Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked. They can do not more than thou dost permit. Assuredly the Lord Jehovah will be no accomplice with the malevolent; their desires will never be his desires; if they thirst for blood he will not gratify their cruelty.

Further not his wicked device. They are so united as to be like one man in their wishes; but do not hear their prayers. The Lord may allow success to attend the policy of the wicked for a time for wise reasons unknown to us, but we are permitted to pray that it be not so.

Lest they exult themselves. If successful, the wicked are sure to grow proud, and insult the righteous over whom they have triumphed. If God seems to favor them they grow too high for this world, and their heads strike against the heavens. Let us hope that the Lord will not let this be.

Selah. Here let us exalt our thoughts and praises high over the heads of self-exalting sinners.

Excerpt from:

The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)