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Psalms 143:1-7

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1 Hear my prayer, O LORD; 1give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your 2faithfulness answer me, in your 3righteousness!
2 4Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous 5before you.
3 For the enemy has pursued my soul; 6he has crushed my life to the ground; 7he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.
4 Therefore my spirit 8faints within me; my heart within me is appalled.
5 9I remember the days of old; 10I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.
6 11I stretch out my hands to you; 12my soul thirsts for you like 13a parched land. Selah
7 14Answer me quickly, O LORD! 15My spirit fails! 16Hide not your face from me, 17lest I be like those who go down to the pit.
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Psalms 143:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 143

\\<>\\. This psalm was composed by David when he fled from Absalom his son, according to the title of it in Apollinarius, the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, and Arabic versions; so R. Obadiah Gaon: and of the same opinion is Theodoret and others. The sense he had of his sins, and his deprecating God's entering into judgment with him for them, seems to confirm it; affliction from his own family for them being threatened him, 2Sa 12:9-11; though Kimchi thinks it was written on the same account as the former, and at the same time, namely, when he was persecuted by Saul; and what is said in Ps 142:2,4, seems to agree with it. The Syriac inscription is, ``when the Edomites came against him;'' which is very foreign, since these were subdued by him.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 17

  • 1. Psalms 140:6
  • 2. 1 John 1:9; [Psalms 31:1]
  • 3. 1 John 1:9; [Psalms 31:1]
  • 4. [Job 14:3]
  • 5. Psalms 130:3; 1 Kings 8:46; Job 9:2; Job 15:14; Job 25:4; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Romans 3:23; 1 Corinthians 4:4
  • 6. See Psalms 88:3-6
  • 7. Lamentations 3:6
  • 8. See Psalms 77:3
  • 9. Psalms 77:5, 11
  • 10. Psalms 77:12; Psalms 111:2
  • 11. See Job 11:13
  • 12. Psalms 42:2
  • 13. [Psalms 63:1]
  • 14. Psalms 69:17; Psalms 102:2
  • 15. [Psalms 84:2]
  • 16. Psalms 27:9
  • 17. Psalms 28:1; Psalms 88:4
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