Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. Treasury of Scripture set a watch Psalm 17:3-5 You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing... Psalm 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. Psalm 71:8 Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day. Micah 7:5 Trust you not in a friend, put you not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom. James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain. James 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.
Context Come to Me Quickly!
1Lord, I cry to you: make haste to me; give ear to my voice, when I cry to you. 2Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. 3Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. 4Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. 5Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities. 6When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. 7Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cuts and splits wood on the earth. 8But my eyes are to you, O GOD the Lord: in you is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. 9Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity. 10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I with escape. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.
Darby Bible Translation
Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
King James Bible
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Young's Literal Translation
Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.
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