| Robert Leighton, George Barrell Cheever - Episcopal Church in Scotland - 1832 - 584 pages
...notice of Man, and Man should take so little notice of God. I said I will take herd to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue ; I will kee.'p my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. Certainly it is a hifjh dignity that is conferred upon man, that he may as freely and frequently as... | |
| Jean Frédéric Ostervald - 1833 - 434 pages
...would not suffer us to be drawn away by the wicked, which is the design of this excellent prayer : Set a watch, 0 Lord, before my mouth : keep the door of my lips. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity : and... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1833 - 604 pages
...upright before God ; and shall be enabled to say with David, " I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle," when most tempted and provoked to speak unadvisedly with my lips d.] From hence we can be at no loss... | |
| George Horne - Bible - 1833 - 438 pages
...the best comment upon it. " 1. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; 1 will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me." The Psalm begins abruptly with the result of a meditation on the narrow, slippery, and dangerous paths... | |
| Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...and upright-. ness preserve me; for I wait on thee. 15 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle. ^f16 Who can understand his •errors ? cleanse thou me from secret faults. 17 Keep back thy servant... | |
| Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1834 - 384 pages
...shall be of the uprightness of my heart Ps. xxxix. 1. David 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. cxli. 3. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth ; keep the door of my lips. Prov. viii. 6. Wisdom saith.... | |
| Henry Forster Burder - Conduct of life - 1834 - 204 pages
...the Psalmist was feelingly aware: — "I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with ray tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. I was dumb with silence ; I held my peace even from good ; and my sorrow was stirred." If, as in the... | |
| Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1834 - 380 pages
...inviolate, he prays, ' O forsake me not utterly.' He promises, ' I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue, I will keep my mouth with a bridle;' but he addresses himself to God for assistance, ' Set a watch before my mouth, and keep the door of... | |
| Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1835 - 358 pages
...LECTURES PSALM XXXIX. EXPOSITORY LECTURES. LECTURE I. VERSE 1. / 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. CERTAINLY it is an high dignity that is conferred upon man, that he may as freely and frequently as... | |
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