Chapter 143

Ps.143:1. Blessed be the Lord my God. The beginning shows extreme joy. Train my hands to take up arms. “Hands” refers to deeds done in godliness, with which we overcome Satan. Ps.143:4. Man is like vanity. Each of the people became like this world. Ps.143:6. Flash the lightning and I will get you married. He calls the gospel sermon lightning. Ps.143:7. Send Your hand from on high: rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of strange children: Ps.143:8. whose mouth spoke [v] vanity. Deliver us from the thoughts that have surrounded us through the malice of demons. Or, the Jewish people call it waters, surrounding the Apostles in order to delay and destroy them. These Jews were the sons of strangers and talkers of vain things. What was this vanity? Is it not to say to Christ: like You, “this man, create for Yourself God” (John 10:33)? Ps.143:9. God, I will sing a new song to You, obviously the song of the gospel. This word is from the person of David himself. In the ten-stringed psalter I sing to You. “The ten-stringed Psalm” is a body as having five senses and five mental activities, because each sense reveals a special activity. Ps.143:10. To the one who gives salvation to our king - to the holy Apostles, whom Christ made them princes. He who delivered David his servant from the fierce sword. Ps.143:11. Deliver me and take me away from the hand of the sons of strangers. For the sake of covenants with them, show all your care for us. The prophet called the fury and brutality of the attackers “a fierce sword.” They themselves, as wicked, are called aliens. Ps.143:12. Their sons are like new plantings planted in their youth. The sons of the carnal people, says the Psalmist, prosper; and the sons of the spiritual people are humiliated. And these are those who say: “Even though our outer man decays, yet the inner man is renewed” (2 Cor. 4:16). Their daughters are fertilized and adorned like a church. Decorated with earthly decoration, that is why they became not a church of God, like the holy souls of those who believed, but a semblance of a church. They pretended to be practicing living according to the Law; but they did not have the Word, but an evil spirit. Ps.143:13. Their repositories are full, belching from this to this. They collected wealth not from heaven, but from earth. Their sheep are prolific, multiplying in their outflows. Their cattle are fat and prolific. Ps.143:14. There is no fall for the stronghold, below the passage. They enjoyed great prosperity, but it will not last for them until the end. For he also showed this in Another Psalm, saying: “I have been brought down, when I was always proud” (Ps. 72:18). Ps.143:15. Having blessed the people, for whom is this: blessed are the people, for whom is the Lord their God. He who judges wrongly and imagines carnal things to be so important considers it blessed to enjoy them a lot. But it is blissful not to enjoy this, but to call on the Lord your God. You might be interested in: