Salmi 143:1-6

1 Salmo di Davide. SIGNORE, ascolta la mia orazione, Porgi l’orecchio alle mie supplicazioni; Per la tua verità, e per la tua giustizia, rispondimi.

2 E non venire a giudicio col tuo servitore; Perciocchè niun vivente sarà trovato giusto nel tuo cospetto.

3 Perciocchè il nemico perseguita l’anima mia; Egli ha fiaccata, ed atterrata la mia vita; Egli mi fa giacere in luoghi tenebrosi, Come quelli che son morti già da lungo tempo.

4 E lo spirito mio spasima in me; Il mio cuore è tutto smarrito dentro di me.

5 Io mi rammemoro i giorni antichi; Io medito tutti i tuoi fatti; Io ragiono delle opere delle tue mani.

6 Io spiego a te le mie mani; L’anima mia è intenta a te, come terra asciutta. Sela.

Salmi 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.