Psalms 140:9
Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Custodi me a laqueo quem statuerunt mihi, et a scandalis operantium iniquitatem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- φύλαξόν με ἀπὸ παγίδος ἧς συνεστήσαντό μοι, καὶ ἀπὸ σκανδάλων τῶν ἐργαζομένων τὴν ἀνομίαν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 141:9
- שָׁמְרֵ֗נִי מִ֣ידֵי פַ֭ח יָ֣קְשׁוּ לִ֑י וּ֝מֹקְשׁ֗וֹת פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXLI
12. “Keep me from the trap which they have laid for me” ( ver. 9 ). What was the trap? “If thou consentest, I spare thee.” In the trap was set the bait of the present life; if the bird love this bait, it falleth into the trap: but if the bird be able to say, “The day of man have I not desired: Thou knowest:” “He shall pluck his feet out of the net,” etc. Two things he hath mentioned to be distinguished the one from the other: the trap he said was set by persecutors; the stumbling-blocks came from those who have consented and apostatised: and from both he desires to be guarded. On the one side they threaten and rage, on the other consent and fall: I fear lest the one be such, that I fear him; the other such, that I imitate him. “This I do to thee, if thou consent not.” “Keep me from the trap,” etc. “Behold, thy brother hath already consented.” “And from the stumbling-blocks,” etc.