Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 143:4

"Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate." — Psalms 143:4 (ASV)

See Psalms 142:3, and Notes.

Is desolate. —Or, more literally, as in Isaiah 59:16; Isaiah 63:5, and others, wondered; literally, fills itself with astonishment.