Psalm 140:8

English Standard Version 2016

Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot, or they will be exalted! Selah

Cross References

Psalm 27:12

Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.

2 Samuel 15:31

And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Deuteronomy 32:27

had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant, it was not the Lord who did all this.”’

Psalm 144:10

who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.