(k) Teach me to (l) do thy will; for thou [art] my God: thy spirit [is] good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
(k) He confesses that both the knowledge and obedience of God's will comes by the Spirit of God, who teaches us by his word, gives understanding by his Spirit, and frames our hearts by his grace to obey him.
(l) That is, justly and aright, for as soon as we decline from God's will, we fall into error.
Verse Psalms 143:10. _TEACH ME TO DO THY WILL_] רצונך _retsonecha_, thy _pleasure_. To be found doing the will of God is the only safe state for man. _THY SPIRIT_ IS _GOOD_] The Author of every _good...
TEACH ME TO DO THY WILL ... - To do that which will be agreeable or pleasing to thee; which will meet with thy approbation. That is, Teach me in the present emergency to do that which thou wilt approv...
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_...
WILL. good pleasure. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. LEAD, &C.. It will lead. LAND. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "way"; others, with Syriac, rea...
Prayer for speedy hearing, for guidance and deliverance, for the destruction of his enemies. The language is borrowed almost entirely from older Psalms....
_Teach me to do thy will_ Cp. Psalms 25:4-5; Psalms 40:8. _for thou_art _my God_ Cp. Psalms 31:14, and often; Psalms 140:6....
DISCOURSE: 739 GOD A REFUGE TO THE DISTRESSED Psalms 143:7. 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. Cause me to hear...
THY SPIRIT IS GOOD; LEAD ME INTO THE LAND OF UPRIGHTNESS— _Let thy good Spirit lead me through plain ground._ Mudge: Who observes, "I have translated it so, as the clause before leads to this sense; a...
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
Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. TEACH ME TO DO THY WILL ( ); FOR THOU ART MY GOD: THY SPIRIT IS GOOD; LEAD ME INTO THE LAND O...
143:10 will; (e-6) As Psalms 40:8 ; Psalms 103:21 . me (f-17) Or 'thy Spirit is good. Lead me.' country. (g-21) Or 'land of uprightness.'...
A late Ps., though ascribed to David, consisting mainly of appropriate reminiscences from earlier Pss....
'Let thy good spirit lead me in an even' (i.e. safe, peaceful) 'country': cp. Psalms 27:11....
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...
THY SPIRIT IS GOOD; LEAD ME. — Or, rather, _let thy good spirit lead me._ (For the omission of the article with the adjective after the determinative noun, comp. Genesis 37:2.) LAND OF UPRIGHTNESS. —...
לַמְּדֵ֤נִי ׀ לַֽ עֲשֹׂ֣ות רְצֹונֶךָ֮ כִּֽי ־אַתָּ֪ה...
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...
_Kings. Their power cannot protect them. (Haydock) --- Hast. Several read, "wilt redeem." --- Malicious. Hebrew, "his servant from the evil sword" (Montanus) of Goliath, (Chaldean) or of Saul, (Berthi...
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...
10._Teach me that I may do thy will_. He now rises to something higher, praying not merely for deliverance from outward troubles, but, what is of still greater importance, for the guidance of God’s Sp...
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...
TEACH ME TO DO THY WILL,.... Revealed in the word; which saints desire a greater knowledge of in order to do it, and in which they delight; and also are desirous of being taught, and to practise submi...
Teach me to do thy will; for thou [art] my God: thy spirit [is] good; lead me into the land of uprightness. Ver. 10. _Teach me to do thy will_] _Orat nunc pro salute animae, ut ante pro corporis,_ sa...
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....
Teach me to do Thy will, to conduct himself in all his dealings in accordance with God's good pleasure; FOR THOU ART MY GOD, and the heart of the believer, joined with that of his heavenly Father, his...
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...
TO DO THY WILL; to continue in faithful obedience to thee, notwithstanding all temptations to the contrary. THY SPIRIT IS GOOD, LEAD ME; or rather, as it is exactly in the Hebrew, and as many both anc...
Psalms 143:10 Teach H3925 (H8761) do H6213 (H8800) will H7522 God H430 Spirit H7307 good H2896 Lead...
Psalms 143:10 There are two kinds of active obedience: one which is called negative, which consists in refraining from something because God has commanded us to refrain, but which can still be called...
«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...
_Teach me to do Thy will; for Thou art my God._ THE DELIGHT OF THE GODLY I. The godly man’s prayer. Humility, teachableness, sense of his own ignorance should characterize the Christian; as also the...
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...
Ephesians 2:4; Ephesians 2:5; Habakkuk 3:2; Psalms 25:17; Psalms 34:19