Psalms 141:3

Set a watch (O Lord) before my mouth: keepe the doore of my lips.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.
- American Standard Version (1901)

O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
- Basic English Bible

Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible

Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
- Darby Bible

In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble:
- Douay-Rheims Bible

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
- English Revised Version

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
- World English Bible

Wesley's Notes for Psalms 141:3

141:4 Incline not - Suffer it not to be inclined. Heart - Keep me not only from wicked speeches, but from all evil motions of my heart. Dainties - The pleasures or advantages which they gain by their wickedness.

141:5 Smite - By reproofs. Break - Not hurt, but heal and greatly refresh me. Calamities - In the calamities of those righteous persons who reproved him. When they came into such calamities as those wherein he was involved he would pity them and pray for them.