2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.
Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?
Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law [is] knowledge of sin.
What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
but knowing that a man is not justified on the principle of works of law [nor] but by the faith of Jesus Christ, *we* also have believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified on the principle of [the] faith of Christ; and not of works of law; because on the principle of works of law no flesh shall be justified.
If they have sinned against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto the enemy's land, far or near;
Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with ùGod? If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.
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Commentary on Psalms 143 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 143
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,
We may more easily accommodate this psalm to ourselves, in the singing of it, because most of the petitions in it are for spiritual blessings (which we all need at all times), mercy and grace.
A psalm of David.
Psa 143:1-6
Here,
Psa 143:7-12
David here tells us what he said when he stretched forth his hands unto God; he begins not only as one in earnest, but as one in haste: "Hear me speedily, and defer no longer, for my spirit faileth. I am just ready to faint; reach the cordial-quickly, quickly, or I am gone.' It was not a haste of unbelief, but of vehement desire and holy love. Make haste, O God! to help me. Three things David here prays for:-