Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 143:11
Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
11. For thy name’s sake, Jehovah, wilt thou quicken me;
In thy righteousness wilt thou bring my soul out of distress:
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
11, 12. The Psalmist’s confidence that God will deliver His servant. The verbs in these last two verses should be rendered as futures not imperatives.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Quicken me, O Lord – Give me life. Compare the notes at Eph 2:1. Make me equal to my circumstances, for I am ready to sink and to yield.
For thy names sake – For thine honor. Compare the notes at Dan 9:17-18. It is in thy cause. Thou wilt thus show thy power, thy faithfulness, thy goodness. Thou wilt thus get honor to thyself. This is the highest motive which can influence us – that God may be glorified.
For thy righteousness sake – Thy justice; thy truth; thy faithfulness in performing thy promises and pledges.
Bring my soul out of trouble – Out of this trouble and distress. See the notes at Psa 25:17.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Psa 143:11
Quicken me, O Lord.
What is religion?
In the New Testament the word quicken sets forth an idea which is at the very core of religion. Dead in trespasses and sins originally, the man, as Christ makes him, is alive for evermore. Regeneration is a quickening; sanctification is the continuance and evolution of that quickening which began in the new birth. It is a remarkable thing that the same word quicken should occur in the Old Testament only in the Psalms, and there almost always as a prayer. The great advantage of the prayers for quickening, and the expressions about it in the Psalms is, that they show us the meaning of the idea and instruct us about it. What quickening is comes out in the result; and the result is variously expressed thus–quicken us and we will call in Thy name, and again quicken me, and so I shall keep the testimony of Thy mouth; or, again, as a cure for worldliness the prayer is offered, Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; quicken Thou me in Thy way. The idea in these prayers is, that the praying soul does not care as it ought for these good things, but knows and confesses that this is a great defect; and consequently asks that it may have the power to care for them. You may remember the case of Darwin, who tells that through devotion to study he lost his interest in music and poetry, going so far as to say that the power to appreciate these which he used to have had died out for want of use. He was sorry for this, and he might be supposed to wish for and even to pray for the restoration of that faculty so exquisitely delightful and so much to be desired. He might be supposed to take steps to re-awaken it. His feeling, if not his words, would be, Quicken me in this; make me sensitive in this. Let my ear have the power to appreciate, and my heart the sensitiveness to feel the power of music and of genuine poetry. Quicken me. That is just what the prayer means in higher matters still. Each one of us has lost many faculties and powers through sin. Our heart is hardened. We cannot see the good, the beauty of some things that are really good. Nothing is more common than to see this illustrated in different ways in different men. How many have a taste for what is intellectual, artistic, natural–for works of philanthropy and charity? How many have the ear that can hear the cry of the needy, or the heart to feel for the oppressed? Are not some so unpitiful and uncharitable, and cruel that they are not aware of their heartlessness? Surely then this is the time when with deep humility and penitence the prayer should be offered for quickening; that the things to which the soul is now sensitive and rejoices should cease to delight, and that the power should be given, or should be restored, of delighting in the true, the good, the beautiful as these are approved of God, and of all right men. Surely the hearts cry should be–Quicken me so that my soul will respond as the soul of Christ to the will of the Father, and to the deep necessities of those in sin and suffering. Quicken me that I may so prize the good that my soul shall, as the soul of Christ, pity the lost, the perishing, the sinful. Quicken me, so that my present insensitiveness, and callousness, and very blindness should disappear, and something of the gentleness, the penitence, the pitifulness, the self-sacrificingness of Christ may be awakened in my soul. Quicken me that I may be a man, not a monster–a man with a heart and a conscience; and not a mere human animal with a covetous eye, a grasping hand, and a selfish, unsympathetic nature. Quicken me that in me the image of God may be renewed, the lost likeness restored, and the family tie of sonship reconstituted. (T. M. B. Paterson.)
The Spirits quickening influence
In the winter and early spring there seems to be no life in the garden and field and forest. Everything looks dead–twice dead. But it is not so really. Under the surface roots are full of ferment, seeds are swelling, and within the bark of the trees is as much movement as m a citys noisy streets. Every fibre is tingling with vital force, and the sap is coursing along the minute channels, and all that is wanted is the breath of the south wind, the warmth of the smiling sun, and the branches will burst into buds, and the earth break out with laughing flowers. So in souls that seem dead, twice dead, the Spirit of God is often at work, and one earnest heaven-sent message calls out the buds of penitence and faith, and it is seen as a very garden of the Lord. Spiritual winter may hold a springtide of blessing and resurrection glory in its chill grasp, but He who commands both can easily transform the one into the other.
Psa 144:1-15
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 11. Quicken me] I am as a dead man, and my hopes are almost dead within me.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
11. (Compare Psa 23:3;Psa 119:156).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name’s sake,…. Being like one dead, Ps 143:3; that is, revive and cheer his drooping spirit, ready to fail, being overwhelmed within him, Ps 143:4; as well as revive the work of grace in him; and quicken his soul to the exercise of grace, and discharge of duty; and this he desires not only for his own soul’s good, but for the glory of God, that his name might be hououred, and not blasphemed;
for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble; for as he had his bodily troubles and other outward affliction, he had soul troubles, through the corruptions of his nature, the temptations of Satan, and the hidings of God’s face; which beset him around, and greatly straitened and afflicted him, and filled him with doubts and fears; from all which he desires deliverance, for the sake of the righteousness of God, or his faithfulness to his promise, that he would deliver his people in distress when they called upon him;
[See comments on Ps 143:1]. This interprets the meaning of the petition in Ps 142:7.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
11. For thy name’s sake, O Jehovah! etc. By this expression he makes it still more clear that it was entirely of God’s free mercy that he looked for deliverance; for, had he brought forward anything of his own, the cause would not have been in God, and only in God. He is said to help us for his own name’s sake, when, although he discovers nothing in us to conciliate his favor, he is induced to interpose of his mere goodness. To the same effect is the term righteousness; for God, as I have said elsewhere, has made the deliverance of his people a means of illustrating his righteousness. He at the same time repeats what he had said as to the extraordinary extent of his afflictions: in seeking to be quickened or made alive, he declares himself to be exanimated, and that he must remain under the power of death, if the God who has the issues of life did not recover him by a species of resurrection.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(11) Quicken me, O Lord.Comp. Psa. 138:7 and Psalms 119 frequently.
Out of trouble.Comp. Psa. 34:17; Psa. 142:7.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
(11, 12) The last two verses are made of reminiscences of former psalm experiences. The verbs should be in the future, not the imperative.
For thy names sake.Comp. Psa. 23:3, &c.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
11. For thy name’s sake An appeal to God for help for his “name’s sake” is an admission that he who makes the appeal has no merit, and can, of himself, offer no adequate inducement. It is the language of self-renunciation. So is the appeal to the divine righteousness, or the harmony of God’s ways with themselves.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 143:11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
Ver. 11. Quicken me, O Lord ] Who am no better than a living carcass, a walking sepulchre of myself.
Bring my soul out of trouble
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Quicken me = Give, or preserve me in life. See note || on p. 827.
name’s. See note on Psa 20:1.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Quicken: Psa 85:6, Psa 119:25, Psa 119:37, Psa 119:40, Psa 119:88, Psa 119:107, Psa 138:7, Hab 3:2, Eph 2:4, Eph 2:5
for thy righteousness’: Psa 143:1, Psa 9:7, Psa 9:8, Psa 31:1, Psa 71:2
bring: Psa 25:17, Psa 34:19, Psa 37:39, Psa 37:40, Psa 91:15, Psa 91:16, Rev 7:14-17
Reciprocal: Job 3:26 – yet trouble came Psa 25:11 – thy Psa 31:3 – lead Psa 106:8 – he saved Psa 109:21 – But do Psa 142:7 – my soul Isa 48:9 – my name’s Mic 6:5 – know