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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Psalms 143:7-12

Here are the same hopes, the same confidences, and the same acts of faith, which all the other parts of the believer's supplications carry with them, that the issue shall be prosperous. And to those who view Christ as the foundation on which those hopes are built, the issue will never be doubtful. Jesus hath said, heaven and earth shall pass away; but my word shall not pass away, Matthew 24:35.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 143:7. _HEAR ME SPEEDILY_] מהר _maher, make haste_ to answer me. A few hours, and my state may be irretrievable. In a short time my unnatural son may put an end to my life....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    “Hear me speedily, O Lord.” Hasten to hear me; do not delay. Literally, “Hasten; answer me.” I am in imminent danger. Do not delay to come to my relief. MY SPIRIT FAILETH - My strength is declining....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    PSALM 143-145 In Psalms 143:1 the enemy is mentioned again, the enemy who pursued David. “For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in da...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    CXLIII. There is no internal argument to justify the LXX title, A Ps. of [or by] David when his son persecuted him. On the contrary, it contains reminiscences of other and those late Psalms 143:3_ b_...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    From Psalms 69:17; Psalms 102:2; Psalms 27:9; Psalms 84:2; Psalms 28:1....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Prayer for speedy hearing, for guidance and deliverance, for the destruction of his enemies. The language is borrowed almost entirely from older Psalms....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 739 GOD A REFUGE TO THE DISTRESSED Psalms 143:7. Hear me speedily, O Lord! my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. Cause me to hear...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 143 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Continued Concealment in the Cave: its Griefs and its Gains. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 143:1-2, Remarkable Pleadings and Deprecation. Stanza II., Psalms 143:3-4, How

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. HEAR ME SPEEDILY, O LORD; MY SPIRIT FAILETH. "Hear me;" translate as the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A late Ps., though ascribed to David, consisting mainly of appropriate reminiscences from earlier Pss....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD IS MY ONLY HOPE PSALMS 143 Jesus said, "Father, if it is possible, I pray that this cup will pass from me. But (it must be) what you want (to happen). It mu...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    With the first clause comp. Psalms 69:17, with the second, Psalms 102:2, This dependence on former psalms does not detract from the reality of the feeling expressed by means of these ancient sobs and...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מַ֘הֵ֤ר עֲנֵ֨נִי ׀ יְהוָה֮ כָּלְתָ֪ה ר֫וּחִ֥י אַל...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 143:1 THIS psalm's depth of sadness and contrition, blended with yearning trust, recalls the earlier psalms attributed to David. Probably this general resemblance in inwardness and mood is all...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

      THE CRY OF THE THIRSTY SOUL Psalms 143:1-12 This psalm falls into four stanzas of three verses each. _Complaint,_ Psalms 143:1-3. Though the enemy has resorted to unwarrantable violence, David re...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is the last of the four psalms, and both in respect of the sense of helplessness and of assurance in God, it is more vivid and striking than either of them. So far as human situation is concerned...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Waters. Of tribulation. (Worthington) --- Children. My rebellious subjects, (Haydock) who lead bad lives in the true Church. (Worthington) --- Foreign nations continued faithful, while Israel rose up...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _REST AND SERVICE_ ‘Hear me, O Lord, and that soon.… For Thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.’ Psalms 143:7 (Prayer Book Version) There you have the transition of a soul from the re...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 140 THROUGH 144. The five following psalms go over ground which we have trodden over in detail: only they apply to a restored Israel, still in conflict, and not...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HEAR ME SPEEDILY, O LORD: MY SPIRIT FAILETH,.... Ready to sink, swoon, and faint away, through the weight of the affliction on him, by reason of the persecution of his enemy, and for want of the divin...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. Ver. 7. _Hear me speedily_] A very pathetic prayer uttered in many words to...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Hear me speedily_ Defer no longer; _for my spirit faileth_ I am just ready to faint. _Hide not thy face_ Be not angry with me; do not turn from me as one displeased with me, nor deprive me of the lig...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A PRAYER OF REPENTANCE AND A SIGH FOR MERCY. A psalm of David, which sets forth the fundamental facts concerning sin and grace, for which reason it was reckoned by Luther with the Pauline psalms....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Hear me speedily, O Lord, for haste was essential in this great emergency; MY SPIRIT FAILETH, almost consumed with languishing. HIDE NOT THY FACE FROM ME, in anger, LEST I BE LIKE UNTO THEM THAT GO DO...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    LEST I BE LIKE: Or, for I am become like. etc....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-12 David prays that God would be well pleased with him, and let him know that he was so. He pleads the wretchedness of his case, if God withdrew from him. But the night of distress and discourageme...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    That are dead and buried, of whom there is no hope....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 143:7 Answer H6030 (H8798) speedily H4118 LORD H3068 spirit H7307 fails H3615 (H8804) hide H5641 ...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    «A psalm of David.» Psalms 143:1. _Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness._ It is a theory held by some persons of skeptical mi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 143:1. _Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no ma...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 143:1. _Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no ma...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Complaint of great distresses and dangers and prayer that persecutors might be reckoned with. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: If we look with earnest desire toward God, we need not let...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This is the last of the penitential psalms, and is uniformly ascribed to David. It was composed during a period of exile. The LXX and the Vulgate, “on the rebellion of Absalom.” Psalms 143:10. _Thy S...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications._ A PENITENTIAL SOUL IN PRAYER I. The reasons urged. 1. A consciousness of moral unrighteousness (verse 2). No man will ever pray rightly until...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 143:1. This individual lament is a penitential psalm. The person’s troubles make him aware of his own sins. ⇐

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 143:7 The situation is still desperate. Therefore he asks, ANSWER ME QUICKLY. He wants to HEAR IN THE MORNING OF God’s STEADFAST LOVE. He also prays for moral

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION This is the last of what are called the Seven Penitential Psalms. In the Hebrew it has the superscription, “A Psalm of David.” And in the Septuagint and the Vulgate there is added, “When...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ALMOST entirely a psalm of supplication, partly general (Psalms 143:1, Psalms 143:7), partly special (Psalms 143:2,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Psa 143:1-12, another psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness. And enter not into judgment with your servant: f...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Genesis 32:24; Hosea 6:3; Isaiah 30:21; Isaiah 48:17; Lamentations

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