Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Psalms 141:3

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

KJV

Effundo in conspectu ejus orationem meam, et tribulationem meam ante ipsum pronuntio :

Vulgate

ἐκχεῶ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ τὴν δέησίν μου, τὴν θλίψιν μου ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ἀπαγγελῶ.

LXX

Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.

ASV

שִׁיתָ֣/ה יְ֭הוָה שָׁמְרָ֣ה לְ/פִ֑/י נִ֝צְּרָ֗/ה עַל דַּ֥ל שְׂפָתָֽ/י

Hebrew

Open in reader with connections →

In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

דַּלְת֣וֹת
dltvt
noun · 89×
הוּ
hv
verb · 85×
י
y
noun · 496×
י
y
noun · 177×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
נִי
ny
verb · 63×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שָׁמְרָ֣ה
shmrh
noun · 1×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Abba Arsenius said to Abba Alexander, "When you have cut your palm branches, come and eat with me, but if visitors come, eat with them." Abba Alexander worked slowly and carefully. When the time came, Abba Arsenius was still at work. Wishing to keep his word, he let him eat alone. Abba Alexander was grieved. Then the old man said, "I did not say that because of you but for myse…
Abba Sisoes said, "For thirty years I have not prayed to God about my sins. Instead I pray thus: 'Lord Jesus, protect me from my tongue.' For even now every day I fall because of it and commit sin."

Cross-references

  • Jas 1:26 — If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
  • Jas 1:26 — If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
  • Jas 3:2 — For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
  • Mic 7:5 — Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
  • Ps 17:3 — Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
  • Ps 34:13 — Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
  • Ps 34:13 — Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
  • Ps 39:1 — I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
  • Ps 39:1 — I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
  • Ps 71:8 — Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
  • Ps 119:29 — Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.