Psalms 143:1
A Psalm. Of David. Let my prayer come to you, O Lord; give ear to my requests for your grace; keep faith with me, and give me an answer in your righteousness;
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2Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:25And now, O Lord God, may the word which you have said about your servant and about his family, be made certain for ever, and may you do as you have said!
Psalms 31:1To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.
Psalms 89:1Maschil. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.
Daniel 9:16O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 143:1
This psalm, as those before, is a prayer of David, and full of complaints of the great distress and danger he was in, probably when Saul persecuted him. He did not only pray in that affliction, but he prayed very much and very often, not the same over again, but new thoughts. In this psalm, I. He complains of his troubles, through the oppression of his enemies ( ver. 3 ) and the weakness of his spirit under it, which was ready to sink notwithstanding the likely course he took to support himself, ver. 4, 5 . II. He… Read the whole commentary →