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Psalm 143

Psa. 143:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Cause me to hear
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
thy lovingkindness
checed (Hebrew #2617)
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
KJV usage: favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-)kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.
Pronounce: kheh'-sed
Origin: from 2616
in the morning
boqer (Hebrew #1242)
properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning
KJV usage: (+) day, early, morning, morrow.
Pronounce: bo'-ker
Origin: from 1239
s; for in thee do I trust
batach (Hebrew #982)
properly, to hie for refuge (but not so precipitately as 2620); figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure
KJV usage: be bold (confident, secure, sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, (make to) hope, (put, make to) trust.
Pronounce: baw-takh'
Origin: a primitive root
: cause me to know
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
the way
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
t wherein
zuw (Hebrew #2098)
this or that
KJV usage: that, this, X wherein, which, whom.
Pronounce: zoo
Origin: for 2088
I should walk
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
; for I lift up
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
my soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
unto thee.
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Psa. 30:5• 5For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. (Psa. 30:5)
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Psa. 73:24• 24Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. (Psa. 73:24)

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Ministry on This Verse

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to hear.
Psa. 30:5• 5For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. (Psa. 30:5)
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Psa. 42:8• 8Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. (Psa. 42:8)
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Psa. 46:5• 5God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early. (Psa. 46:5)
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Psa. 46•  (Psa. 46)
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Psa. 59:16• 16But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble. (Psa. 59:16)
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Gen. 32:24‑29• 24And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
 25And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
 26And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
 27And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
 28And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
 29And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. (Gen. 32:24‑29)
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Hos. 6:3• 3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. (Hos. 6:3)
cause me.
Psa. 143:10• 10Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. (Psa. 143:10)
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Psa. 5:8• 8Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. (Psa. 5:8)
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Psa. 25:4‑5• 4Show me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.
 5Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. (Psa. 25:4‑5)
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Psa. 27:11• 11Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. (Psa. 27:11)
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Psa. 32:8• 8I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. (Psa. 32:8)
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Psa. 119:34,73• 34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
 73JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. (Psa. 119:34,73)
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Prov. 3:5‑6• 5Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
 6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (Prov. 3:5‑6)
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Isa. 30:21• 21And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. (Isa. 30:21)
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Isa. 48:17• 17Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. (Isa. 48:17)
for I lift.
Psa. 25:1• 1<<A Psalm of David.>> Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. (Psa. 25:1)
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Psa. 86:4• 4Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. (Psa. 86:4)
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Lam. 3:41• 41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. (Lam. 3:41)
• It is broken by the affliction, and trusts God, and seeks His way. It transfers the evils, so to speak, from God to the adversary, associating itself in heart with God, and looking that God should own it and take up its cause as against the power of evil which He had used as a rod. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 143-145” by J.N. Darby)
• He longs for the loving-kindness of the Lord to bring him out of the darkness of soul into the light of the morning. (“Psalms 143” by H. Smith)
• {v.8-10} He desires to know the way in which the Lord would have him to walk; to be delivered from his enemies; to learn God’s will, and to be led into the land of uprightness. (“Psalms 143” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Cause me to hear thy loving-kindness in the morning, for in thee do I confide; make me to know the way wherein I should walk, for unto thee do I lift up my soul.