Passage Research
Psalm 141 — Sermon Preparation
A David prayer for moral watchfulness, asking God to guard his mouth and keep his heart from drifting toward evil or dining with the wicked. Below is a research summary for Psalm 141, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
- 95 / 79
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 7
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Psalm 141 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| פָּעַל | pâʻal | H6466 | 2 | do, make |
| תְּפִלָּה | tᵉphillâh | H8605 | 2 | intercession, supplication |
| אָוֶן | ʼâven | H205 | 2 | nothingness, trouble |
| פֶּה | peh | H6310 | 2 | mouth, blowing |
| רֹאשׁ | rôʼsh | H7218 | 2 | head |
| רַע | raʻ | H7451 | 2 | bad, evil |
| קָרָא | qârâʼ | H7121 | 2 | call out to |
How preachers through history handled this text
7 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 141, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“David was in distress when he penned this psalm, pursued, it is most likely, by Saul, that violent man. Is any distressed? Let him pray; David did so, and had the comfort of it. I. He prays for God's favourable acceptance, ver. 1, 2. II. For his powerful assistance, ver. 3, 4. III. That others might be instrumental of good to his soul, as he hoped to be to the souls of others, ver. 5, 6. IV. That he and his friends being now brought to the last extremity God would graciously appear for their relief and rescue, ver. 7-10. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 141:1–30 (Public Domain)
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