Mazmur 141:3

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Awasilah mulutku, ya TUHAN, berjagalah pada pintu bibirku!

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Awasilah mulutku, ya TUHAN, berjagalah pada pintu bibirku!

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Ya Tuhan! taruhlah kiranya suatu penunggu di hadapan mulutku dan tunggui apalah akan pintu bibirku.

Contextual Overview

¹ O God I call vpon thee, haste thee vnto me: geue eare vnto my voyce whylest I crye vnto thee. ² Let my prayer be directed before thy face [as] an incense: let the liftyng vp of mine handes [be] an euenyng sacrifice. ³ Set a watch O God before my mouth: and kepe the doore of my lippes. ⁴ Inclyne not myne heart to any euyll thyng, wherby I myght commit any vngodly act with men that be workers of iniquitie: and let me not eate of their delicates.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Set a watch: Psalms 17:3-5, Psalms 39:1, Psalms 71:8, Micah 7:5, James 1:26, James 3:2

Reciprocal: Psalms 106:33 - he spake Psalms 119:29 - Remove

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth,.... While praying, as Jarchi and Kimchi; that he might not utter any rash, unguarded, and unbecoming word; but take and use the words which God gives, even the taught words of the Holy Ghost; or lest, being under affliction and oppression, he should speak unadvisedly with his lips, and utter any impatient murmuring and repining word against God; or express any fretfulness at the prosperity of the wicked, or speak evil of them; especially of Saul, the Lord's anointed, for the ill usage of him;

keep the door of my lips; which are as a door that opens and shuts: this he desires might be kept as with a bridle, especially while the wicked were before him; lest he should say anything they would use against him, and to the reproach of religion; and that no corrupt communication, or any foolish and filthy talk, or idle and unprofitable words, might proceed from them. The phrase signifies the same as the other; he was sensible of his own inability to keep a proper watch and guard over his words, as was necessary, and therefore prays the Lord to do it; see Psalms 39:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth - That I may not say anything rashly, unadvisedly, improperly. Compare Psalms 39:1. The prayer here is, that God would guard him from the temptation to say something wrong. To this he seems to have been prompted by the circumstances of the case, and by the advice of those who were with him. See introduction to the psalm. Compare the notes at Psalms 11:1.

Keep the door of my lips - That my lips or mouth may not open except when it is proper and right; when something good and true is to be said. Nothing can be more proper than “this” prayer; nothing more desirable than that God should keep us from saying what we ought not to say.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 141:3. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth — While there are so many spies on my actions and words, I have need to be doubly guarded, that my enemies may have no advantage against me. Some think the prayer is against impatience; but if he were now going to Gath, it is more natural to suppose that he was praying to be preserved from dishonouring the truth, and from making sinful concessions in a heathen land; and at a court where, from his circumstances, it was natural to suppose he might be tempted to apostasy by the heathen party. The following verse seems to support this opinion.