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4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
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When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. …
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here, I. David humbly begs to be heard (Ps. 143:1), not as if he questioned it, but he earnestly desired it, and was in care about it, for, having desired it, and was in care about it, for having directed his prayer, he looked up to see how it sped, Hab. 2:1. He is a suppliant to his God, and he begs that his requests may be granted: Hear my prayer; give ear to my supplications . He is an appellan…
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