Salmos 143:1-6

1 Ó Senhor, ouve a minha oração, dá ouvidos �s minhas súplicas! Atende-me na tua fidelidade, e na tua retidão;

2 e não entres em juízo com o teu servo, porque � tua vista não se achará justo nenhum vivente.

3 Pois o inimigo me perseguiu; abateu-me até o chão; fez-me habitar em lugares escuros, como aqueles que morreram há muito.

4 Pelo que dentro de mim esmorece o meu espírito, e em mim está desolado o meu coração.

5 Lembro-me dos dias antigos; considero todos os teus feitos; medito na obra das tuas mãos.

6 A ti estendo as minhas mãos; a minha alma, qual terra sedenta, tem sede de ti.

Salmos 143:1-6 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.