Holy Scripture
Psalms 140:3
A church father on this verse
“Do you see how holy Scripture knows how to call human only the person practicing virtue and does not think the others are human, calling them instead flesh at one time and earth at another? Hence at this place, too, in promising to list the genealogy of the good person it says, "Noah was a human being." You see, he al…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, And a strong door about my lips.
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1A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried to thee; hear me: Attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to thee.
2Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; The lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
— Psalms 140:3 —
4Incline not my heart to evil things, To employ pretexts for sins, With men who work iniquity: And let me not unite with their choice ones.
5The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: But let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: For yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures.