Psalm 141:4 {140:4}
Good News Translation
Keep me from wanting to do wrong and from joining evil people in their wickedness. May I never take part in their feasts.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not turn my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with those who work iniquity; do not let me eat of their delicacies.

Contemporary English Version
Don't let me want to do evil or waste my time doing wrong with wicked people. Don't let me even taste the good things they offer.

New American Bible
Do not let my heart incline to evil, to perform deeds in wickedness. On the delicacies of evildoers let me not feast.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.

incline not

Psalm 119:36 Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness.

Deuteronomy 2:30 And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not let us pass: because the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and fixed his heart, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.

Deuteronomy 29:4 And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears that may hear, unto this present day.

1 Kings 8:58 But may he incline our hearts to himself, that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and his ceremonies, and all his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

1 Kings 22:22 And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit, in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive him, and shalt prevail: go forth, and do so.

Isaiah 63:17 Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

James 1:13 Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils: and he tempteth no man.

to practise

1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues.

and let me

Numbers 25:2 Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.

Proverbs 23:1-3,6-8 When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face: . . .

Daniel 1:5-8 And the king appointed them a daily provision, of his own meat, and of the wine of which he drank himself, that being nourished three years, afterwards they might stand before the king. . . .

Acts 10:13,14 And there came a voice to him: Arise, Peter. Kill and eat. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:27,28,31 If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you be willing to go: eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake. . . .

Context
Come Quickly to Me
3Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips. 4Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.5The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:…
Cross References
Joshua 24:23
Now therefore, said he, put away strange gods from among you, and incline your hearts to the Lord the God of Israel.

Psalm 119:36
Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness.

Proverbs 23:3
Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.

Proverbs 23:6
Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:

Isaiah 32:6
For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty.

Daniel 1:8
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not be defiled with the king's table, nor with the wine which he drank: and he requested the master of the eunuchs that he might not be defiled.

Hosea 6:8
Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.

Malachi 3:15
Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.

Psalm 141:3
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