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Psalms 140:8
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Psalms 140:8
8Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
8‖Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked deuice, lest they exalt themselues. Selah.
- Or, let them not be exalted.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 140:8
To give, bestow, allow, or confer, especially in answer to a request.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Wishes, longings, requests, or things sought; as a verb, wishes or longs for.
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Farther in distance; more, additional, advanced, or to a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A plan, purpose, design, or contrivance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That not; for fear that.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To raise oneself proudly, presumptuously, or above the place of others.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
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Open the full verse study31¶ And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
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Open the full verse study27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.
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Open the full verse study12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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Open the full verse study12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
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Open the full verse study20Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
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