{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa143.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa143.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa143.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nin thy faithfulness . . . and . . . righteousness--or, God's regard to the claims which He has permitted His people to make in His covenant.\nenter . . . judgment--deal not in strict justice.\nshall no . . . justified--or, \"is no man justified,\" or \"innocent\" (Job 14:3; Rom 3:20).\nThe exciting reason for his prayer--his afflictions--led to confession as just made: he now makes the complaint.\nas those that have been long dead--deprived of life's comforts (compare Psa 40:15; Psa 88:3-6).\nThe distress is aggravated by the contrast of former comfort (Psa 22:3-5), for whose return he longs.\na thirsty land--which needs rain, as did his spirit God's gracious visits (Psa 28:1; Psa 89:17).\nspirit faileth--is exhausted.\n(Compare Psa 25:1-4; Psa 59:16).\nthe way . . . walk--that is, the way of safety and righteousness (Psa 142:3-6).\n(Compare Psa 31:15-20).\n(Compare Psa 5:8; Psa 27:11).\nland of uprightness--literally, \"an even land\" (Psa 26:12).\n(Compare Psa 23:3; Psa 119:156).\nGod's mercy to His people is often wrath to His and their enemies (compare Psa 31:17).\nthy servant--as chosen to be such, entitled to divine regard.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 143","type":"page"}