 | 1877 - 88 pages
...Thyself to me, and I shall have no wants. 28. O LoRD, if Thou be for us, who shall be against us ? 29. Set a watch, O LoRD, before my mouth ; and keep the door of my lips. 30. I will magnify Thee, 0 GoD, my King! *LL Thy works praise Thee, O LORD, and Thy saints give thanks... | |
 | Rosalind Marryat - Christian life - 1878 - 132 pages
...swearing or cursing, no impure conversation, or light jests, be the means of my leading others into sin. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips that I offend not with my tongue, and teach me so to train it here to prayer and praise that at last... | |
 | Oxford: city, St. Philip and st. James - 1878 - 222 pages
...may be most usefully and religiously resisted. First and foremost, by silence, except in prayer. " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips," when under the pressure of scorn and ridicule. The safest of all answers in such matters is often just... | |
 | George Edward Jelf - Decalogue - 1878 - 188 pages
...ourselves, we never cease to pray to Him whose grace is unspeakably mighty, absolutely purifying : " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips." 9 Ps. xxxix. I. XI. Cotntna1ibnttnt. CONTENTMENT. " Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou... | |
 | Charles Voysey - Heresy - 1882 - 492 pages
...in their iniquity and glory in their shame. While, lest we speak falsely or uncharitably, we pray " Set a watch O Lord before my mouth and keep the door of my lips," let us also pray in the words of the Church of England on St. John the Baptist's day : " Make us so... | |
 | Divine service - 1878 - 676 pages
...set forth in Thy sight as the incense : and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips. O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing : let me not be occupied in ungodly works with the... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1879 - 614 pages
...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 occupied in ungodly works with... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1879 - 470 pages
...Everything has been tamed, but the tongue, the unruly vice that none can do more than bridle : — " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, And keep the door of my lips." St. James further shows the utter inconsistency of the unguarded tongue, at one time praising God,... | |
 | Convocation prov. of Canterbury - 1879 - 244 pages
...set forth in Thy sight as the incense : and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth : and keep the door of my lips. O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing : let me not be occupied in ungodly works with the... | |
 | G T. H - 1880 - 178 pages
...in which I should walk ; for I lift up my soul unto Thee." — PSALM cxliii. WHEN TEMPTED TO ANGER. "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips. " — PSALM cxli. " O God, help me to bear this provocation patiently, for Jesus Christ's sake." AT... | |
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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. 
