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.

A Psalm.

Psalm 143:1 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.

; acknowledges the impossibility of being saved but by grace, ver.

Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

; deplores the lamentable effects of sin, ver.

Psalm 143:3,4 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old: . . .

; comforts himself with a retrospect of God's mercies of old, ver.

Psalm 143:5 I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of thy hands.

; and prays, in a variety of expressions, for remission of sin, sanctification, and redemption. ver.

Psalm 143:6-12 I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee. . . .

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thy faithfulness

Psalm 31:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy. [2] In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: deliver me in thy justice.

Psalm 71:2 Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me, and save me.

2 Samuel 7:25 And now, O Lord God, raise up for ever the word that thou hast spoken, concerning thy servant and concerning his house: and do as thou hast spoken,

Daniel 9:16 O Lord, against all thy justice: let thy wrath and thy indignation be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city, Jerusalem, and from thy holy mountain. For by reason of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem, and thy people, are a reproach to all that are round about us.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.