Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
11. "Deliver me not over, O Lord, by my own longing to the sinner" (ver. 8). Behold to what end Thy overshadowing shall avail for me, that I suffer not heat from myself. And what could that "sinner" do to me, rage as he would? For wicked men raged against the martyrs, dragged them away, bound them with chains, shut them up in prisons, slew them with the sword, exposed them to wild beasts, consumed them with fire: all this they did; yet did not God deliver them over to the sinners, because they were not delivered over by their own longing. This then pray with all thy might, that God "delivered thee not over by thine own longing to the sinner." For thou by thine own longing givest place to the devil. For lo, the devil hath set before thee gain, invited thee to dishonesty; thou canst not have the gain, unless thou commit the dishonesty: the gain is the bait, dishonesty the snare: do thou so look on the bait, that thou see the snare also; for thou canst not obtain the gain, unless thou com...
Desire. If I yield to my passions, (St. Augustine) or after I have expressed my request, contrary to my desire Hebrew, "Grant not the desire of the sinner, complete not his thought. They will be elated. "Some supply, "lest they be. "The ancients seem not to have read in the same manner. (Berthier)
Abandon not my soul, which is all my care, (Psalm xxi. 21.) to the sinner. (Calmet)
