‏ Psalms 143

1 David prays for favour in judgment.

3 He complains of his griefs.

5 He strengthens his faith by meditation and prayer.

7 He prays for grace;

9 for deliverance;

10 for sanctification;

12 for destruction of his enemies;

(Title.) A Psalm.The LXX., Vulgate, Ethiopic, and Arabic state that this Psalm was composed by David on the rebellion of his son Absalom; and there are several passages in it which agree remarkably well with that period; for then he had most reason to fear lest God should deal with him according to his sins; which he deprecates with such a deep sense of his unworthiness, that it has hence been numbered among the penitential Psalms, of which it is the last. In it he prays to God for pardon, ver. 1; acknowledges the impossibility of being saved but by grace, ver. 2; deplores the lamentable effects of sin, ver. 3, 4; comforts himself with a retrospect of God's mercies of old, ver. 5; and prays, in a variety of expressions, for remission of sin, sanctification, and redemption, ver. 6-12.

thy faithfulness.

31:1; 71:2; 2Sa 7:25; Da 9:16; 1Jo 1:9

enter not.

130:3; Job 14:3

in thy sight.

Ex 34:7; Job 4:17; 9:2,3; 15:14; 25:4; Ec 7:20; Ro 3:20; Ga 2:16

1Jo 1:10

the enemy.

7:1,2; 17:9-13; 35:4; 54:3; 142:6

smitten.

7:5; 2Sa 2:22; 18:11

made me.

31:12,13; 88:4-6; Eze 37:11

is my spirit.

55:5; 61:2; 77:3; 102:1; *title

124:4; 142:3; Job 6:27

my heart.

25:16; 102:3,4; 119:81-83; Lu 22:44

remember.

42:6; 77:5,6,10-12; 111:4; De 8:2,3; 1Sa 17:34-37,45-50

Isa 63:7-14; Mic 6:5

stretch forth.

44:20; 88:9; Job 11:13

my soul.

42:1,2; 63:1; 84:2; Isa 26:8,9; 35:7; Joh 7:37

Hear me.

13:1-4; 40:13,17; 70:5; 71:12

my spirit.

40:12; 69:3; Isa 57:16; Lu 21:26

hide not.

22:24; 27:9; 69:17; Isa 8:17

lest I be like, etc. or, for I am become like, etc. untothem.

28:1; 88:4-6,10,11; Isa 38:18

to hear.

30:5; 42:8; 46:5; *marg:

59:16; Ge 32:24-29; Ho 6:3

cause me.

10; 5:8; 25:4,5; 27:11; 32:8; 119:34,73; Pr 3:5,6; Isa 30:21; 48:17

for I lift.

25:1; 86:4; La 3:41

flee unto thee. Heb. hide me with thee.

34:2-4; 56:9; 61:3,4; 142:5; Pr 18:10; Heb 6:18

Teach.

25:4,5,8,9,12; 119:5-7,12,35; 139:24; Mic 4:2; Mt 28:20

Col 1:9,10; 1Th 4:1,2; Heb 13:21; 1Jo 2:27

for thou art.

22:1; 31:14; 63:1; 118:28; 140:6

thy spirit.

Ne 9:20; Isa 63:14; Joh 14:26; 16:13-15; Ro 5:5; 8:2,14-16,26

Ro 15:13,30; Ga 5:22,23; Eph 4:30; 5:9; 2Ti 1:7

the land.

Isa 29:10

Quicken.

85:6; 119:25,37,40,88,107; 138:7; Hab 3:2; Eph 2:4,5

for thy righteousness.

1; 9:7,8; 31:1; 71:2

bring.

25:17; 34:19; 37:39,40; 91:15,16; Re 7:14-17

of thy mercy.

54:5; 55:23; 136:15-20; 1Sa 24:12-15; 25:29; 26:10

for I am thy.

116:16; 119:94
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