Psalms 143:1 (KJV)

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Hear my prayer O LORD give ear to my supplications in thy faithfulness answer me and in thy righteousness
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thy faithfulness. Ps 31:1 Ps 71:2 2Sa 7:25 Da 9:16 1Jo 1:9

12 for destruction of his enemies; (Title.) A Psalm.The LXX., Vulgate, Ethiopic, and Arabic state that this Psalm was composed by David on the rebellion of his son Absalom; and there are several passages in it which agree remarkably well with that period; for then he had most reason to fear lest God should deal with him according to his sins; which he deprecates with such a deep sense of his unworthiness, that it has hence been numbered among the penitential Psalms, of which it is the last. In it he prays to God for pardon, ver. 1; acknowledges the impossibility of being saved but by grace, ver. 2; deplores the lamentable effects of sin, ver. 3, 4; comforts himself with a retrospect of God's mercies of old, ver. 5; and prays, in a variety of expressions, for remission of sin, sanctification, and redemption, ver. 6-12.

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