Psalms 143:8-10

8 ¹Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I ²trust. ³Make me know the way I should go, ⁴for to you I lift up my soul.

9 ⁵Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD! I have fled to you for refuge!^[a]

10 ⁶Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! ⁷Let your good Spirit ⁸lead me on ⁹level ground!

Psalms 143:8-10 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.

Cross References

• 1. [Psalms 90:14]
• 2. Psalms 11:1; Psalms 25:2
• 3. Psalms 25:4
• 4. Psalms 25:1
• 5. Psalms 59:1; Psalms 142:6
• 6. [Psalms 119:12]
• 7. Nehemiah 9:20
• 8. See Psalms 23:3
• 9. Isaiah 26:10; [Psalms 27:11]

Footnotes

• [a]. One Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts To you I have covered