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Psalms 143:1
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A Psalm of David.
Hear my prayer, O Lord ; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!A Psalme of Dauid. Heare my prayer, O Lorde, and hearken vnto my supplication: answere me in thy trueth and in thy righteousnes.
Lord, hear my prayer.In your faithfulness listen to my plea,and in your righteousness answer me.
<> Hear my prayer, LORD. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
A praise song of David.
Lord , hear my prayer. Listen to my call for help and answer my prayer. Show me how good and loyal you are.Hear my prayer, O LORD, Listen to my supplications! Answer me in Your faithfulness, and in Your righteousness.
A Psalm of David.
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; give ear to my supplications: In thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.(A psalm by David.)
Listen, Lord , as I pray! You are faithful and honest and will answer my prayer.A psalm of David: Adonai , hear my prayer; listen to my pleas for mercy. In your faithfulness, answer me, and in your righteousness.
A Psalm of David. {N}in Thy faithfulness answer me, and in Thy righteousness.
[A Psalme of Dauid.] Heare my prayer, O Lord, giue eare to my supplications: in thy faithfulnesse answere me, and in thy righteousnes.
O Lord, attend to my prayer: hearken to my supplication in thy truth; hear me in thy righteousness.
A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
A Psalm of David. O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.
A psalm of David.
O Yahweh, hear my prayer; listen to my supplications. In your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness.A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O Jehovah give ear to my supplications; answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness;
A psalm of David.
Lord , hear my prayer; listen to my cry for mercy. Answer me because you are loyal and good.A psalm of David.
O Lord , hear my prayer! Pay attention to my plea for help! Because of your faithfulness and justice, answer me!A psalm of David.
Hear my prayer, O Lord ; listen to my plea! Answer me because you are faithful and righteous.Hear my prayer, O Lord. Listen when I ask for help. Answer me because You are faithful and right.
O Yahweh, hear my prayer, Give ear to my supplications, In thy faithfulness, answer me, in thy righteousness.
(142-1) <A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued him.> Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hear me in thy justice.
HEAR my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications; in thine own words answer me, and in thy righteousness.
Lord , hear my prayer! In your righteousness listen to my plea; answer me in your faithfulness!
Hear my prayer, LORD, Listen to my pleadings! Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!
Hear my prayer, O Lord , give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
Heare my prayer O God, geue eare vnto my desire: hearken vnto me for thy trueth sake, for thy ryghteousnesse sake.
A Psalm of David.
Hear my prayer, O Lord ; give ear to my supplications in your faithfulness; answer me in your righteousness.A Psalm of David.
Jehovah, hear my prayer; give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness.The `title of the hundrid and two and fourtithe salm. The salm of Dauid. Lord, here thou my preier, with eeris perseyue thou my biseching; in thi treuthe here thou me, in thi riytwisnesse.
A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, hear my prayer, Give ear unto my supplications, In Thy faithfulness answer me -- in Thy righteousness.
<> Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my supplications! In thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness!
A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O Yahweh; give ear to my supplications: In your faithfulness answer me, [and] in your righteousness.
A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, [and] in thy righteousness.
Let my prayer come to you, O Lord; give ear to my requests for your grace; keep faith with me, and give me an answer in your righteousness;
Heare my prayer (o LORDE) considre my desyre: answere me for thy treuth & rightuousnesse sake.
A David Psalm Listen to this prayer of mine, God ; pay attention to what I'm asking. Answer me—you're famous for your answers! Do what's right for me. But don't, please don't, haul me into court; not a person alive would be acquitted there.
A Psalm of David.
Hear my prayer, O Lord , Give ear to my supplications! Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!O Yahweh, hear my prayer,Give ear to my supplications!Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thy faithfulness: Psalms 31:1, Psalms 71:2, 2 Samuel 7:25, Daniel 9:16, 1 John 1:9
Reciprocal: Nehemiah 13:22 - spare me Psalms 27:7 - General Psalms 30:10 - Hear Psalms 36:10 - and thy Psalms 54:5 - cut Psalms 64:1 - Hear Psalms 143:11 - for thy righteousness' Luke 22:62 - and wept
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications,.... With these requests David begins the psalm; for it was to no purpose to pray and were heard; and for which he always appears to be concerned, as every good man will, and not to be heard only, but to be answered, as follows;
in thy faithfulness answer me, [and] in thy righteousness; he does not plead his own faith, with which he believed in God, as rama interprets it; though the prayer of faith is very effectual; but the faithfulness of God to his promises; he had promised to hear, answer, and deliver such as called on him in a time of trouble; and he is faithful that has promised, nor will he suffer his faithfulness to fail; he cannot deny himself; and on this the psalmist relied for an answer, as well as desired and expected it; not on account of his own righteousness, but either on account of the goodness and grace of God, sometimes designed by righteousness, or because of the righteousness of Christ, or for the sake of Christ, the Lord our righteousness; on whose account God is just and faithful to forgive sin, the blessing the psalmist wanted, as appears from Psalms 143:2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear ... - See Psalms 4:1, note; Psalms 5:1, note.
In thy faithfulness answer me - That is, Show thy faithfulness to thy promises. God had made gracious promises to David (compare Psalms 89:19-37), and he now pleads that he would remember those promises, and accomplish in his behalf what he had said he would. God has also made gracious promises to his people, and they may always plead those promises as a reason why they should be heard, and why their prayers should be answered.
And in thy righteousness - Compare Psalms 31:1. In thy disposition to do right; to vindicate a righteous cause; to interpose when wrong is done. We, though sinners before God, may feel that our cause is a just one as toward our fellowmen, and, when wronged, we may ask God to interpose, as a righteous God, in our behalf. We cannot, however, ask him to save us on the ground of our righteousness toward him, for we have no such righteousness. See Psalms 143:2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
PSALM CXLIII
The psalmist prays for mercy, and deprecates judgment, 1, 2.
His persecutions, 3.
His earnest prayer for deliverance, 4-9.
Prays for God's quickening Spirit, 10, 11.
And for the total discomfiture of his adversaries, 12.
NOTES ON PSALM CXLIII
The Hebrew and all the Versions attribute this Psalm to David; and the Vulgate, Septuagint, AEthiopic and Arabic state that it was composed on the rebellion of his son Absalom: nor is there any thing in the Psalm that positively disagrees with this inscription. This is the last of the seven Psalms styled penitential.
Verse Psalms 143:1. In thy faithfulness answer me — Thou hast promised to support me in my difficulties, and, though my children should forsake me, never to withdraw thy loving-kindness from me. See the present unnatural rebellion of my son. Lord, undertake for me!
