 | Rev. Charles Bridges, M.A. - 1847 - 134 Seiten
...Mark the ill success in the neglect of waiting upon the Lord, Jos. ix. 14—23. XXIX. PSALM cxli. 8. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips. Why is this prayer so necessary ? Because our hearts are so full of sin, Gen. vi. 5. Matt. xv. 19.... | |
 | Thomas Kerchever Arnold - 1847 - 572 Seiten
...Foolish talking or jesting . . . are not convenient, but rather giving of thanks." Ps. cxxxiii. 3. " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips." Matt. xii. 34. " Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. How can ye, being evil, speak... | |
 | Charles Bridges - 1847 - 574 Seiten
...the multitude of words there wanteth not sin,"s sin must bring us within the jaws of destruction. " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth ; and keep the door of my lips"8 — was the prayer of one, who knew the danger of an ungoverned tongue, and the only way to... | |
 | Lancelot Andrewes - 1848 - 332 Seiten
...undisciplined words. Give me early the ear to hear, and open mine ears to the instruction of Thy oracles. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips. Let my word be seasoned with salt, that it may minister grace to the hearers. Let no need be grief... | |
 | 1848 - 246 Seiten
...set forth in thy sight as the incense : and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice. 3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth : and keep the door of my lips. 4 O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing : let me not be ocpupied in ungodly works with... | |
 | John Boyden - 1848 - 314 Seiten
...will ; for thou art my God ; let thy loving spirit lead me forth unto the land of righteousness. C. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips. S. O !et not my heart be inclined to any evil thing ; let me not be occupied in ungodly works with... | |
 | Eleanor Plumptre - 1877 - 386 Seiten
...thoughtless words we shall give account, how much more for wilfully wicked words ! " — Canon How, "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth ; and keep the door of my lips" (Ps. cxli. 3). Banger of trifling foitfj " tfje Erutfj." MATT. xii. 38-45. " CERTAIN of the Scribes... | |
 | Ernest Roland Wilberforce (bp. of Chichester.) - 1877 - 134 Seiten
...often speak in whisper, lest they bring down the avalanche ; for us at this stage the prayer was made, "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips *." But you may say, " Here it is that I find my own chief temptation, it is the world that ensnares... | |
 | Prayers, Richard Henry Cresswell - 1877 - 306 Seiten
...never he surprised by sudden temptations or a careless spirit, nor ever return to folly or vanity. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips, that I offend not in tongue neither against piety or charity. Teach me to think of nothing; hut Thee... | |
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O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing ; let me not be occupied in ungodly works with the men that work wickedness, lest I eat of such things as please them. 
