Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 143:4
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my (e) heart within me is desolate.
(e) So that only by faith and by the grace of God's Spirit was he upheld.
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my (e) heart within me is desolate.
(e) So that only by faith and by the grace of God's Spirit was he upheld.
Verse Psalms 143:4. _THEREFORE IS MY SPIRIT_] I am deeply depressed in spirit, and greatly afflicted in body. _MY HEART WITHIN ME IS DESOLATE._] It has no companion of its sorrows, no sympathetic fri...
THEREFORE IS MY SPIRIT OVERWHELMED WITHIN ME - See the notes at Psalms 77:3. Compare Psalms 42:5. His spirit was broken and crushed. He was in a state of despair as to any human help. MY HEART WITHIN...
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_...
MY SPIRIT. me. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, put for the whole person, for emphasis. OVERWHELMED. Same word as Psalms 77:3; Psalms 107:5; Psalms 142:3....
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....
And my spirit has fainted upon me; My heart within me is appalled. _my spirit_&c. Cp. Psalms 142:3, note. _is desolate_ Rather, is appalled, stupefied and paralysed at the apparent hopelessness of m...
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
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. THEREFORE IS MY SPIRIT OVERWHELMED WITHIN ME (; ) THEREFORE IS MY SPIRIT OVERWHELMED WITHIN ME - (;...
IS.. OVERWHELMED] better, 'faints.' IS DESOLATE] better, 'is bewildered.'...
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...
See Psalms 142:3, and Notes. IS DESOLATE. — Or, more literally, as in Isaiah 59:16; Isaiah 63:5, &c, _wondered;_ literally, _fills itself with astonishment. _...
וַ תִּתְעַטֵּ֣ף עָלַ֣י רוּחִ֑י בְּ֝ תֹוכִ֗י י
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...
_Vanity. Hebrew hebel, "nothing, a vapour," &c., Ecclesiastes i. 1., and James iv. 15. (Haydock) --- Our lives resemble a shadow, which is the less distinct, the more it increases. (Berthier) --- As i...
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,...
4._And my spirit_, etc. Hitherto he has spoken of the troubles that were without, now he acknowledges the feebleness of his spirits, from which it is evident that his strength, vas not like that of th...
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...
THEREFORE IS MY SPIRIT OVERWHELMED WITHIN ME,.... Covered over with grief, borne down with sorrow, ready to sink and fail; Psalms 142:3; MY HEART WITHIN ME IS DESOLATE; destitute of the spirit and p...
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. Ver. 4. _Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed_] God's dearest children have their passions; against that stoic apathy. A sh...
_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....
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me, being faint by reason of the long duration of his trials; MY HEART WITHIN ME IS DESOLATE, not only forsaken, but almost rigid and motionless with fear and...
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...
MY SPIRIT OVERWHELMED WITHIN ME. SEE POOLE ON "PSALMS 61:2" SEE POOLE ON "PSALMS 142:3". IS DESOLATE; deprived of all hope and comfort. Or, is astonished....
Psalms 143:4 spirit H7307 overwhelmed H5848 (H8691) heart H3820 within H8432 distressed H8074 (H8709) is my spirit -...
«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...
_My heart within me is desolate._ TROUBLE OF SOUL He spake before of his external calamities; now he confesseth the infirmities of his mind, that he was wonderfully cast down in heart and troubled in...
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 143:4 When the SPIRIT or “soul” FAINTS, the person is at the end of his strength. ⇐...
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 17:34; 1 Samuel 17:45; Deuteronomy 8:2; Deuteronomy 8:3;...