George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 143:11
Children. Both Jews and Christians who live ill, are like strangers, who frame to themselves a temporal felicity, making riches and pleasures their god. (Worthington)
Children. Both Jews and Christians who live ill, are like strangers, who frame to themselves a temporal felicity, making riches and pleasures their god. (Worthington)
Verse Psalms 143:11. _QUICKEN ME_] I am as a dead man, and my hopes are almost dead within me....
QUICKEN ME, O LORD - Give me life. Compare the notes at Ephesians 2:1. Make me equal to my circumstances, for I am ready to sink and to yield. FOR THY NAME’S SAKE - For thine honor. Compare the notes...
PSALM 143-145 In Psalms 143:1 the enemy is mentioned again, the enemy who pursued David. “For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in da...
CXLIII. There is no internal argument to justify the LXX title, A Ps. of [or by] David when his son persecuted him. On the contrary, it contains reminiscences of other and those late Psalms 143:3_ b_...
QUICKEN ME. Give, or preserve me in life. See note || on p. 827. NAME'S. See note on Psalms 20:1....
Prayer for speedy hearing, for guidance and deliverance, for the destruction of his enemies. The language is borrowed almost entirely from older Psalms....
For thy name's sake, Jehovah, wilt thou quicken me; In thy righteousness wilt thou bring my soul out of distress:...
The Psalmist's confidence that God will deliver His servant. The verbs in these last two verses should be rendered as futures not imperatives....
PSALMS 143 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Continued Concealment in the Cave: its Griefs and its Gains. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 143:1-2, Remarkable Pleadings and Deprecation. Stanza II., Psalms 143:3-4, How
Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. QUICKEN ME, O LORD, FOR THY NAME'S SAKE - for the sake of thine own glory, that thou mayest show t...
143:11 me, (h-2) Or 'Keep me alive,' as Psalms 119:25 ....
A late Ps., though ascribed to David, consisting mainly of appropriate reminiscences from earlier Pss....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD IS MY ONLY HOPE PSALMS 143 Jesus said, "Father, if it is possible, I pray that this cup will pass from me. But (it must be) what you want (to happen). It mu...
QUICKEN ME, O LORD. — Comp. Psalms 138:7 and Psalms 119 frequently. OUT OF TROUBLE. — Comp. Psalms 34:17; Psalms 142:7....
The last two verses are made of reminiscences of former psalm experiences. The verbs should be in the future, not the imperative. FOR THY NAME’S SAKE. — Comp. Psalms 23:3, &c....
לְמַֽעַן ־שִׁמְךָ֣ יְהוָ֣ה תְּחַיֵּ֑נִי בְּ צִדְקָתְךָ֓...
Psalms 143:1 THIS psalm's depth of sadness and contrition, blended with yearning trust, recalls the earlier psalms attributed to David. Probably this general resemblance in inwardness and mood is all...
THE CRY OF THE THIRSTY SOUL Psalms 143:1-12 This psalm falls into four stanzas of three verses each. _Complaint,_ Psalms 143:1-3. Though the enemy has resorted to unwarrantable violence, David re...
This is the last of the four psalms, and both in respect of the sense of helplessness and of assurance in God, it is more vivid and striking than either of them. So far as human situation is concerned...
Here are the same hopes, the same confidences, and the same acts of faith, which all the other parts of the believer's supplications carry with them, that the issue shall be prosperous. And to those w...
_REST AND SERVICE_ ‘Hear me, O Lord, and that soon.… For Thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.’ Psalms 143:7 (Prayer Book Version) There you have the transition of a soul from the re...
11._For thy name’s sake, O Jehovah! etc_. By this expression he makes it still more clear that it was entirely of God’s free mercy that he looked for deliverance; for, had he brought forward anything...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 140 THROUGH 144. The five following psalms go over ground which we have trodden over in detail: only they apply to a restored Israel, still in conflict, and not...
QUICKEN ME, O LORD, FOR THY NAME'S SAKE,.... Being like one dead, Psalms 143:3; that is, revive and cheer his drooping spirit, ready to fail, being overwhelmed within him, Psalms 143:4; as well as rev...
_Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble._ Ver. 11. _Quicken me, O Lord_] Who am no better than a living carcass, a walking sepulchre of myse...
Psalms 143:10 ; PSALMS 143:12. _Teach me to do thy will_ To continue in faithful obedience to thee, notwithstanding all temptations to the contrary. _Thy Spirit is good, lead me_, &c. Or rather, as it...
A PRAYER OF REPENTANCE AND A SIGH FOR MERCY. A psalm of David, which sets forth the fundamental facts concerning sin and grace, for which reason it was reckoned by Luther with the Pauline psalms....
Quicken me, O Lord, for Thy name's sake, in order that the name of God, especially His mercy and love, might be magnified in consequence of His act of deliverance; FOR THY RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE BRING MY...
7-12 David prays that God would be well pleased with him, and let him know that he was so. He pleads the wretchedness of his case, if God withdrew from him. But the night of distress and discourageme...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 143:11 Revive H2421 (H8762) LORD H3068 names H8034 righteousness H6666 bring H3318 (H8686) soul H5315 tro
«A psalm of David.» Psalms 143:1. _Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness._ It is a theory held by some persons of skeptical mi...
Psalms 143:1. _Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no ma...
CONTENTS: Complaint of great distresses and dangers and prayer that persecutors might be reckoned with. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: If we look with earnest desire toward God, we need not let...
This is the last of the penitential psalms, and is uniformly ascribed to David. It was composed during a period of exile. The LXX and the Vulgate, “on the rebellion of Absalom.” Psalms 143:10. _Thy S...
_Quicken me, O Lord._ WHAT IS RELIGION? In the New Testament the word “quicken” sets forth an idea which is at the very core of religion. Dead in trespasses and sins originally, the man, as Christ ma...
_Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications._ A PENITENTIAL SOUL IN PRAYER I. The reasons urged. 1. A consciousness of moral unrighteousness (verse 2). No man will ever pray rightly until...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 143:1. This individual lament is a penitential psalm. The person’s troubles make him aware of his own sins. ⇐
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 143:9 The prayer closes by expressing trust in a number of ways: I HAVE FLED TO YOU FOR REFUGE, YOU ARE MY GOD, and the expectation based on God’s steadfast love
INTRODUCTION This is the last of what are called the Seven Penitential Psalms. In the Hebrew it has the superscription, “A Psalm of David.” And in the Septuagint and the Vulgate there is added, “When...
EXPOSITION ALMOST entirely a psalm of supplication, partly general (Psalms 143:1, Psalms 143:7), partly special (Psalms 143:2,...
Psa 143:1-12, another psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness. And enter not into judgment with your servant: f...
1 Samuel 24:12; 1 Samuel 25:29; 1 Samuel 26:10; Psalms 136:15;...