Psalm 143:4

4 And [so] my spirit grows faint within me; my heart {within} me is desolate.

Psalm 143:4 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 143:4

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me
Covered over with grief, borne down with sorrow, ready to sink and fail; (See Gill on Psalms 142:3);

my heart within me is desolate;
destitute of the spirit and presence of God, and with respect to the exercise of grace, and filled with fears and misgivings; or "astonished" ^F21, at the providence he was under, like one stunned and filled with sore amazement, not knowing what to make of things, or what the issue of them would be; so David's antitype was "sore amazed" in the garden, when his troubles and agonies came upon him, ( Mark 14:33 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 (Mmwtvy) "attonitum est", Vatablus; "stupuit", Tigurine version; "stupet", Cocceius, Michaelis; "obstupuit", Gejerus.

Psalm 143:4 In-Context

2 And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive [is] righteous before you.

3 For [the] enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground. He has made me dwell in dark places like [those] long dead.

4 And [so] my spirit grows faint within me; my heart {within} me is desolate.

5 I remember [the] days of long ago; I meditate on all your doings. I muse on the labor of your hands.

6 I stretch out my hands to you; my soul [longs] for you like a dry land. Selah

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "in the midst of"