This verse explains the last. The affliction under which the psalmist suffers is evidence that God is visiting for sin.
He hath made... — See Lamentations 3:6; and comp. Psalms 88:5.
Long dead. — Literally, either dead of old, or dead for ever, according as we take ‘ôlam of past or future time. LXX., νεκροὺς αἰῶνος; Vulg., mortuos sæculi.
Verse Psalms 143:3. _HE HATH MADE ME TO DWELL IN DARKNESS_] Literally, _in_ _dark places_. This may be understood of David's taking refuge in _caves_ and _dens_ of the earth, to escape from his persec...
FOR THE ENEMY HATH PERSECUTED MY SOUL - Has persecuted me; has sought my life. HE HATH SMITTEN MY LIFE DOWN TO THE GROUND - He has, as it were, trampled me down to the earth. The word rendered “smitte...
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_...
PERSECUTED. pursued. MY SOUL. me (emphatic). Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
Cp. Psalms 7:5; Psalms 88:3-6. The last line agrees verbatim with Lamentations 3:6. _in darkness_ In dark places, as Psalms 88:6, probably a f
The reason for his prayer. The extremity of his present sufferings seems to be a proof that God is calling him to account and punishing him for his sins with strict severity....
HE HATH MADE ME TO DWELL IN DARKNESS— _He maketh me to lie close in dark places._ The original word מחשׁכים _macheshakkim,_ properly signifies _dark places,_ and every where means the dark caverns of...
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
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. FOR THE ENEMY HATH PERSECUTED MY SOUL. "F...
THAT HAVE BEEN LONG DEAD] better, 'that are for ever dead': cp. Lamentations 3:6....
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...
כִּ֥י רָ֘דַ֤ף אֹויֵ֨ב ׀ נַפְשִׁ֗י דִּכָּ֣א לָ֭ †...
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...
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 (d) long dead. (d) He acknowledges that God is the onl...
_To him. Hebrew, "thou dost acknowledge him." (St. Jerome) (Haydock) --- In the transport of gratitude, he reflects on his own weakness, Job vii. 17., and Romans viii. 31. (Calmet) --- Before Christ,...
Jesus might yet thus complain, because when he stood forth in our stead, he felt all that it was our due to have felt, had he not interposed. The temptations of Satan were harassing to his holy soul,...
3._For the enemy hath persecuted my soul_. Having acknowledged that he only suffered the just punishment of his sins, David comes now to speak of his enemies; for to have begun by speaking of them wou...
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...
FOR THE ENEMY HATH PERSECUTED MY SOUL,.... Which is to be connected with Psalms 143:1; and is a reason why he desires his prayer might be answered, seeing his enemy, either Saul, or Absalom his own so...
_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._ Ver. 3. _For the enemy hath persecuted my...
_For the enemy hath persecuted my soul_ This is not a reason of what he said last, Psalms 143:2, but an argument to enforce his petition, delivered Psalms 143:1, and repeated Psalms 143:7. He hath smi...
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....
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul, seeking to obtain the highest good which he possessed; HE HATH SMITTEN MY LIFE DOWN TO THE GROUND, almost succeeding in his evil intention; HE HATH MADE ME TO DW...
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...
This is not a reason of what he last said, PSALMS 143:2, but an argument to enforce his petition delivered PSALMS 143:1, and repeated PSALMS 143:7, &c. For though I am not faultless, if thou shouldst...
Psalms 143:3 enemy H341 (H8802) persecuted H7291 (H8804) soul H5315 crushed H1792 (H8765) life H2416 ground...
«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...
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...
_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. ⇐
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...
Job 6:27; Luke 22:44; Psalms 102:1; Psalms 102:3; Psalms 102:4;...
For — This is not a reason of what he last said, but an argument to enforce his petition delivered, Psalms 143:1. Soul — My life; nothing less will satisfy him. Dead — I am in as hopeless a condition...