Psalms 141:9

“Keep me from the snare [which] they have laid for me, etc.] Either Saul, who gave him a wife to be a snare to him, and set men to watch his house and take him; or the Ziphites, who proposed to Saul to deliver him into his hands; (see <091821>1 Samuel 18:21 19:11 23:19,20). and the gins of the workers of iniquity; the transgressions of wicked men are snares to others, by way of example; and so are the doctrines of false teachers, and the temptations of Satan, from all which good men desire to be kept, (<202906>Proverbs 29:6 <280908>Hosea 9:8 <550226>2 Timothy 2:26); and it is the Lord alone that keeps and preserves from them, or breaks the snare and delivers them, (<19C407>Psalm 124:7).”

“Keep me from the snares ... - See the notes at Psalms 11:6. Compare Psalms 38:12; Psalms 69:22; Psalms 91:3. The secret plans which they have laid against me. And the gins of the workers of iniquity - Wicked men; men who seek my destruction. On the word gins, see the notes at Isaiah 8:14. The gin is a trap or snare to catch birds or wild animals. The word used here is the same which occurs in Psalms 18:5, and which is there rendered “snare.” See the notes at that passage. Compare also Psalms 64:5; Psalms 69:22; Psalms 106:36; Psalms 140:5, where the same word occurs. return to 'Top of Page'”

“from the snares: Psa 119:110, Psa 140:5, Psa 142:3; Pro 13:14; Jer 18:22; Luk 20:20 Psalms 141:10”