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Psalms 141:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

the righteous: 1 Samuel 25:31-34; 2 Samuel 12:7-13; 2 Chronicles 16:7-10, 2 Chronicles 25:16; Proverbs 6:23, Proverbs 9:8-9; Proverbs 15:5, Proverbs 15:22, Proverbs 19:25, Proverbs 25:12, Proverbs 27:5-6; Galatians 2:11-14, Galatians 6:1; Revelation 3:19

smite: etc. or, smite me kindly and reprove me; let not their precious oil break my head, etc

for yet my: Psalms 51:18, Psalms 125:4; Matthew 5:44; 2 Timothy 1:16-18; James 5:14-16

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