Psalms 143:1
A Psalm of David versus Goliath. Blessed is the Lord, my God, who trains my hands for the battle and my fingers for the war.
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2 Samuel 7:25Now therefore, O Lord God, raise up forever the word that you have spoken over your servant and over his house. And do just as you have said,
Psalms 31:1The understanding of David himself. Blessed are they whose iniquities have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered.
Psalms 89:1A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.
Daniel 9:16O Lord, for all your righteousness, turn away, I beg you, your anger and your fury from your city, Jerusalem, and from your holy mountain. For, because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are a reproach to all who surround 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 →