The Bible Commentaries and Others: Psalms 141 v 3

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Posted by Psalms on Saturday, 23 January 2016

Psalms 141:3

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

141:3. set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth. That mouth had been used in prayer; it would be a pity it should ever be defiled with untruth, or pride, or wrath; yet so it will become unless carefully watched, for these intruders are ever lurking about the door. When the Lord becomes the guard of our mouth the whole person is well garrisoned.

Keep the door of my lips. In times of persecution we are especially liable to speak hastily, or evasively, and therefore we should be specially anxious to be preserved in that direction from every form of sin. We are ennobled by being door-keepers for the Lord, and yet he deigns to be a door-keeper for us.

Excerpt from:

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