Psalms 143:1
TITLE.. PSALM OF DAVID. Same as 140. LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
TITLE.. PSALM OF DAVID. Same as 140. LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
ENTER NOT. As in Job 9:32; Job 22:4. IN THY SIGHT. Compare 1 Samuel 16:7; Isaiah 55:8; Job 14:3. NO MAN. no one. Compare Job 15:14; Job 15:15. BE JUSTIFIED. stand or appear [before Thee] just. The verb is Active. Septuagint, Authorized Version, and Revised Version render it passive. Compare Romans... [ Continue Reading ]
PERSECUTED. pursued. MY SOUL. me (emphatic). Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
REMEMBER. Compare Psalms 77:5; Psalms 77:10; Psalms 77:11. MUSE. talk with myself. t HE WORK OF THY HANDS. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "works" (plural)... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. Some codices, with seven early printed editions, read "in". SELAH. Connecting and returning to prayer (7-11) as the consequence of the reflection (5, 6). This is the last Selah (of seventy-one) in the Psalms. For three others, see- Habakkuk 3:3; Habakkuk 3:9; Habakkuk 3:13. See App-66.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PIT. a grave. Hebrew. _bor._. sepulchre, as hewn out of the rock. Hence rendered cistern, or dry pit. Compare Genesis 37:20. See note on Genesis 21:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
LOVINGKINDNESS: or grace. TRUST. confide. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69.... [ Continue Reading ]
DELIVER ME. pluck me [out of the hands of]. FLEE. Authorized Version, 1611, reads "fly". Since 1629 the reading is "flee". UNTO. Some codices, with one early printed edition and Septuagint, read "in". Compare Psalms 143:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL. good pleasure. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. LEAD, &C.. It will lead. LAND. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "way"; others, with Syriac, read "path". Compare Psalms 27:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
QUICKEN ME. Give, or preserve me in life. See note || on p. 827. NAME'S. See note on Psalms 20:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace. ENEMIES. Compare Structure, Psalms 143:3.... [ Continue Reading ]