Psalm 140:8 {139:9}
Good News Translation
LORD, don't give the wicked what they want; don't let their plots succeed.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not grant, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot. Selah

Contemporary English Version
Don't let the wicked succeed in doing what they want, or else they might never stop planning evil.

New American Bible
LORD, do not grant the desires of the wicked one; do not let his plot succeed. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.

grant not

Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

Psalm 94:20,21 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment? . . .

2 Samuel 15:31 And it was told David that Achitophel also was in the conspiracy with Absalom, and David said: Infatuate, O Lord, I beseech thee, the counsel of Achitophel.

Job 5:12,13 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun: . . .

lest they exalt themselves.

Deuteronomy 32:27 But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.

Context
Rescue Me, O LORD, From Evil Men
7O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle. 8Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.9The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them.…
Cross References
Esther 9:25
And afterwards Esther went in to the king, beseeching him that his endeavors might be made void by the king's letters: and the evil that he had intended against the Jews, might return upon his own head. And so both he and his sons were hanged upon gibbets.

Psalm 10:2
Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.

Psalm 10:3
For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.

Psalm 66:7
Who by his power ruleth for ever: his eyes behold the nations; let not them that provoke him be exalted in themselves.

Psalm 112:10
The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 140:7
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