Chapter 143

Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.

(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 2 Samuel 7.25 Daniel 9.16 1 John 1.9

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

enter not

130.3 Job 14.3

in thy sight

Exodus 34.7 Job 4.17 9.2,3 15.14 25.4 Ecclesiastes 7.20 Romans 3.20 Galatians 2.16 1 John 1.10

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

the enemy

7.1,2 17.9-13 35.4 54.3 142.6

smitten

7.5 2 Samuel 2.22 18.11

made me

31.12,13 88.4-6 Ezekiel 37.11

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

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 Luke 22.44

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

remember

42.6 77.5,6,10-12 111.4 Deuteronomy 8.2,3 1 Samuel 17.34-37,45-50 Isaiah 63.7-14 Micah 6.5

I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

stretch forth

44.20 88.9 Job 11.13

my soul

42.1,2 63.1 84.2 Isaiah 26.8,9 35.7 John 7.37

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Hear me

13.1-4 40.13,17 70.5 71.12

my spirit

40.12 69.3 Isaiah 57.16 Luke 21.26

hide not

22.24 27.9 69.17 Isaiah 8.17

lest I be like, etc

or, for I am become like, etc. unto them.

28.1 88.4-6,10,11 Isaiah 38.18

Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

to hear

30.5 42.8 46.5 *marg:; 59.16 Genesis 32.24-29 Hosea 6.3

cause me

10 5.8 25.4,5 27.11 32.8 119.34,73 Proverbs 3.5,6 Isaiah 30.21 48.17

for I lift

25.1 86.4 Lamentations 3.41

Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

flee unto thee

Heb. hide me with thee.

34.2-4 56.9 61.3,4 142.5 Proverbs 18.10 Hebrews 6.18

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

Teach

25.4,5,8,9,12 119.5-7,12,35 139.24 Micah 4.2 Matthew 28.20 Colossians 1.9,10 1 Thessalonians 4.1,2 Hebrews 13.21 1 John 2.27

for thou art

22.1 31.14 63.1 118.28 140.6

thy spirit

Nehemiah 9.20 Isaiah 63.14 John 14.26 16.13-15 Romans 5.5 8.2,14-16,26 Romans 15.13,30 Galatians 5.22,23 Ephesians 4.30 5.9 2 Timothy 1.7

the land

Isaiah 29.10

Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.

Quicken

85.6 119.25,37,40,88,107 138.7 Habakkuk 3.2 Ephesians 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 Revelation 7.14-17

And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

of thy mercy

54.5 55.23 136.15-20 1 Samuel 24.12-15 25.29 26.10

for I am thy

116.16 119.94