Psalm 141
Verse 1
LORD, I 1 cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
He shows that there is no other refuge in our necessity but only to flee to God for comfort of soul.
Verse 2
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the 1 lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
He means his earnest zeal and gesture, which he used in prayer: alluding to the sacrifices which were by God's commandment offered in the old law.
Verse 3
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; 1 keep the door of my lips.
He desires God to keep his thoughts and ways either from thinking or executing vengeance.
Verse 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 1 dainties.
Let not their prosperity lure me to be wicked as they are.
Verse 5
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let 1 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.
He could abide all corrections that came from a loving heart.
Verse 6
When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall 1 hear my words; for they are sweet.
The people who follow their wicked rulers in persecuting the prophet will repent and turn to God, when they see their wicked rulers punished.
Verse 7
Our bones are scattered at the 1 grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Here it appears that David was miraculously delivered out of many deaths as in
Verse 10
Let the wicked fall into 1 their own nets, 2 whilst that I withal escape.
Into God's nets, by which he catches the wicked in their own malice.
So that none of them escape.