“ Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. ”
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me - See the notes at Psalms 77:3 . Compare Psalms 42:5-7 . His spirit was broken and crushed. He was in a state of despair as to any human help. My...
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my (e) heart within me is desolate. (e) So that only by faith and by the grace of God's Spirit was he upheld.
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...
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 14...
4. And my spirit, etc. Hitherto he has spoken of the troubles that were without, now he acknowledges the feebleness of his spirits, from which it is evident that his strength, vas not like th...
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. Therefore is my spirit - I am deeply depressed in spirit, and greatly afflicted in body. My heart within me is desolate...
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me ( Psalms 142:3 ; Psalms 77:3 ) Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed...
A late Ps., though ascribed to David, consisting mainly of appropriate reminiscences from earlier Pss.
See Psalms 142:3 , and Notes. Is desolate. — Or, more literally, as in Isaiah 59:16 ; Isaiah 63:5 , &c, wondered; literally, fills itself with astonishment.
Psalms 143:1-12 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...
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, Davi...
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 concerne...
Jesus might yet thus complain, because when he stood forth in our stead, he felt all that it was our due to have felt, had he not interposed. The temptations of Satan were harassing to his holy soul,...
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me ,.... Covered over with grief, borne down with sorrow, ready to sink and fail; Psalms 142:3 ; my heart within me is desolate ; destitute of the spiri...
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. Ver. 4. Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed ] God's dearest children have their passions; against that stoic apathy. A...
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul This is not a reason of what he said last, Psalms 143:2 , but an argument to enforce his petition, delivered Psalms 143:1 , and repeated Psalms 143:7 . He...
Complaints and Petitions. A psalm of David. 1 Hear my prayer, O L ORD , give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfu...
My spirit overwhelmed within me. See Poole on " Psalms 61:2 " See Poole on " Psalms 142:3 " . Is desolate; deprived of all hope and comfort. Or, is astonished.
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, “Whe...
Psalms 143:1-19 . 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...
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 . Th...
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...
EXPOSITION ALMOST entirely a psalm of supplication, partly general ( Psalms 143:1 , Psalms 143:7 ), partly special ( Psalms 143:2 , Psalms 143:8-19 ). Psalms 143:3-19 , however, give the gr...
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.
1 Samuel 17:34-37 ; 1 Samuel 17:45-50 ; Deuteronomy 8:2 ; Deuteronomy 8:3 ; Isaiah 63:7-14 ; Micah 6:5 ; Psalms 111:4 ; Psalms 42:6 ; Psalms 77:10-12 ; Psalms 77:5 ; Psalms 77:6