John Gill Commentary Psalms 143:4

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

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me Covered over with grief, borne down with sorrow, ready to sink and fail; (See Gill on Psalms 142:3);

my heart within me is desolate ; destitute of the spirit and presence of God, and with respect to the exercise of grace, and filled with fears and misgivings; or "astonished" ^F21 , at the providence he was under, like one stunned and filled with sore amazement, not knowing what to make of things, or what the issue of them would be; so David's antitype was "sore amazed" in the garden, when his troubles and agonies came upon him, (Mark 14:33) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F21: (Mmwtsy) "attonitum est", Vatablus; "stupuit", Tigurine version; "stupet", Cocceius, Michaelis; "obstupuit", Gejerus.