Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Set a watch (O LORD) before my mouth: keepe the doore of my lips.
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3Thou 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.
4Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
5Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
3Thou hast prooued 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 transgresse.
4Concerning the workes of men, by the word of thy lips, I haue kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
5†Hold vp my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
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Psalms 141:3
1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.
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Sense 1: To remain awake, alert, attentive, vigilant, observant, or on guard. Sense 2: A guard or guard duty, a station or group keeping guard, or a division of the night so guarded.
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The divine name of the living God, also named JEHOVAH.
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Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank.
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Sense 1: The bodily opening used for eating, breathing, and speaking. Sense 2: The opening or entrance of a thing. Sense 3: Speech, utterance, or the agency of speaking.
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To guard, watch, protect, preserve, secure, retain, possess, hold, maintain, support, tend, manage, observe, obey, fulfil, celebrate, continue in, refrain from, or remain faithful to a person, place, trust, command, promise, way, time, or thing.
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Sense 1: The physical borders of the mouth. Sense 2: By extension, speech or utterance.
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2Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
2†Let my prayer bee set foorth before thee as incense: and the lifting vp of my hands as the Euening sacrifice.
3Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
3Set a watch (O LORD) before my mouth: keepe the doore of my lips.
Selected passage4Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
4Incline not my heart to any euill thing, to practise wicked workes with men that worke iniquitie: and let mee not eate of their dainties.