Psalms 143:1
Listen, O Lord, to my prayer; attend to my plea. In your faithfulness give me answer, and in your righteousness.
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2With your servant O enter you not into judgment, for in your sight can no one alive be justified.
Cross References
Psalms 31:1In you, O Lord, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. Rescue me in your faithfulness;
Psalms 89:1I will sing evermore of the love of the Lord, proclaiming to all generations his faithfulness.
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 →