 | Armoury, Berdmore Compton - 1880 - 274 pages
...spirit of watchfulness, that I may never be surprised and taken unawares. Oh, keep me from idle words. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips. And still more urgently do I pray that Thou wilt greatly help me to control my thoughts. Restrain with... | |
 | Jean Pierre Camus (bp. of Belley.) - 1880 - 380 pages
...have forMEMORY AND JUDGMENT I 2<) given them. It was with the sense of this that David cried out, " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips. Let not my heart be inclined to any evil thing;"' meaning excuses invented to cloke his sins. We must... | |
 | Charles Philip Wilbraham - 1880 - 76 pages
...me, Thy unworthy servant, grace to keep my tongue from evil, and my lips that they speak no guile. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips, that I may be utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend. Grant that no corrupt communication... | |
 | Bible - 1881 - 624 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... | |
 | Christina Georgina Rossetti - 1881 - 552 pages
...The righteous also shall give thanks unto Thy Name : and the just shall continue in Thy sight. — 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... | |
 | Henry Thornhill Morgan - Bible - 1881 - 692 pages
...to pray God earnestly that He will guard us through the day and help us to restrain our tongues. " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips." CHAPTER XII. 1. Christ preachcth to his disciples to avoid hypocrisy, and tearfulness in publishing... | |
 | Churchman - 1881 - 266 pages
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - Prayer books - 1881 - 250 pages
...when no man can work. O order my steps in Thy word ; and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth ; and keep the door of my lips. Teach me Thy way, O Lord, and I will walk in Thy truth : O knit my heart unto Thee, that I may fear... | |
 | Pancras (st, of Synnada.) - 1882 - 76 pages
...forsake me, O God of my salvation. Direct the thoughts of my heart. Help me to bear this patiently. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips. (See also verses in Psalms xxv., xxvii., and Ixxxvi.) IN PERSECUTION. THE Lord Jesus grant us His heavenly... | |
 | Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall - 1882 - 92 pages
...for these and other like sins of my speech. Thou dost by Thy example bid me to restrain my words. " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth and keep the door of my lips." (Ps. cxli. 3.) We have often pleaded falsely : Thou didst not plead at all, but didst commend Thy cause... | |
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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. 
