Psalms 143:1
Of understanding for David. A prayer when he was in the cave. [1 Kings
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:25And now, O Lord God, raise up for ever the word that thou hast spoken, concerning thy servant and concerning his house: and do as thou hast spoken,
Psalms 31:1Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy.
Psalms 89:1Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.
Daniel 9:16O Lord, against all thy justice: let thy wrath and thy indignation be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city Jerusalem, and from thy holy mountain. For by reason of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem, and thy people are a reproach to all that 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 →