Let the righteous smite me: for that is a benefit: and let [a]him reprove me, and it shall be a precious oil that shall not break mine head: for within a while I shall even [b]pray in their miseries.

When their judges shall be cast down in stony places, they shall [c]hear my words, for they are sweet.

Our bones lie scattered at the [d]grave’s mouth, as he that heweth wood or diggeth in the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 141:5 He could abide all corrections, that came of a loving heart.
  2. Psalm 141:5 By patience I shall see the wicked so sharply handled, that I shall for pity pray for them.
  3. Psalm 141:6 The people which followeth their wicked rulers in persecuting the Prophet, shall repent and turn to God, when they see their wicked rulers punished.
  4. Psalm 141:7 Here appeareth that David was miraculously delivered out of many deaths, as 2 Cor. 1:9, 10.

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