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Verse Psalms 143:5. _I REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD_] Thou hast often
helped me, often delivered me. I will therefore trust in thee, for thy
mercy is not clean gone from me....
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I REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD - Former times.
(1) as contrasted with my present condition.
(2) as times when I called upon thee, and thou didst interpose.
(3) as encouraging me now to come to thee, and...
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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...
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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_...
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REMEMBER. Compare Psalms 77:5; Psalms 77:10; Psalms 77:11.
MUSE. talk with myself. t
HE WORK OF THY HANDS. Some codices, with three early printed editions,
Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "wo...
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Cp. Psalms 77:5; Psalms 77:11-12. The recollection of God's wonderful
works of old time deepens his despondency, as he ponders on the
contrast; "a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier thing...
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The thought of all that God wrought in ancient times makes him long
for a fresh manifestation of His power....
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I REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD— i.e. "But still, upon a more sedate
reflection, I consider not only what thou hast done for me during the
persecutions of Saul; but also that long before, in my younger day...
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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
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I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on
the work of thy hands.
I REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD; I MEDITATE ON ALL THY WORKS; I MUSE ON
THE WORK OF THY HANDS - namely, thy work...
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A late Ps., though ascribed to David, consisting mainly of appropriate
reminiscences from earlier Pss....
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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...
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See Psalms 77:5....
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זָ֘כַ֤רְתִּי יָמִ֨ים ׀ מִ קֶּ֗דֶם
הָגִ֥יתִי בְ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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I remember the (f) days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on
the work of thy hands.
(f) That is, your great benefits of old, and the manifold examples of
your favour towards your own....
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_Mountains. The proud, (Origen) spirits. (St. Hilary) --- Come to my
assistance, as thou didst appear on Sinai, Exodus xix. 16., and Psalm
xvii. 8. (Calmet) --- This is a poetical description of God's...
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It is very sweet and blessed; under present troubles, to call to
remembrance former mercies. Asaph found this, Psalms 77:3. Hence that
sweet promise, Genesis 22:14. Reader, let you and I look back, un...
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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...
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I REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD,.... Former times he had read and heard of,
in which the Lord appeared for his people that trusted in him; or the
former part of his own life, his younger days, when the Lor...
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I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the
work of thy hands.
Ver. 5. _I remember the days of old_] Wherein I was delivered from
the lion and the bear; yea, from the hand...
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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....
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I remember the days of old, when Jehovah was so evidently on his side;
I MEDITATE ON ALL THY WORKS, thinking over the many manifestations of
God's mercy and salvation in his life; I MUSE ON THE WORK O...
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1-6 We have no righteousness of our own to plead, therefore must
plead God's righteousness, and the word of promise which he has freely
given us, and caused us to hope in. David, before he prays for...
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I REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD, i.e. what thou hast done for thy servants
in former times; which he mentions either,
1. As matter of terror, to consider how unlike God now was unto
himself and to his for...
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Psalms 143:5 remember H2142 (H8804) days H3117 old H6924 meditate
H1897 (H8804) works H6467 muse H7878 ...
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«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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_I remember the days of old._
THE MINISTRY OF MEMORY
I. As a necessity of human nature.
1. By the laws of proximity, likeness, contrast, we are every day
thrown back on the past, made in some measu...
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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.
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 143:5 Being at the end of his strength need not
mean that he gives up. Instead, if he can REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD, he
will find in himself fresh courage to STRETCH OUT his...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
ALMOST entirely a psalm of supplication, partly general (Psalms 143:1,
Psalms 143:7), partly special (Psalms 143:2,...
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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...
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Isaiah 26:8; Isaiah 26:9; Isaiah 35:7; Job 11:13; John 7:37;...
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The days — What thou hast done for thy servants in former times....