Psalm 143:8 (BSB)

Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.

From Psalms 143. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Psalm 143:8

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Psalm 143:1-12: PSALM 143 Although the enemies with whom David had to contend were wicked, and their persecution as unjust as it was cruel, David recognized the just judgment of God in it all, and seeks to conciliate his favor by humbly supplicating pardon.
• C.H. Spurgeon (Reformed Baptist), The Treasury of David on Psalm 143:8: Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust. Lord, my sorrow makes me deaf, —cause me to hear: there is but one voice that can cheer me—cause me to hear thy lovingkindness; that music I would fain enjoy at once—cause me to hear it in the morning, at the first dawning hour.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Psalm 143:7-12: David here tells us what he said when he stretched forth his hands unto God; he begins not only as one in earnest, but as one in haste: "Hear me speedily, and defer no longer, for my spirit faileth. I am just ready to faint; reach the cordial - quickly, quickly, or I am gone." It was not a haste of unbelief, but of vehement desire and holy love.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Psalm 143:8: Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning,.... Not only externally in the ministry of the word; but internally by the Spirit, so as to feel and perceive, and have some sensible experience of it; which he desired he might have in the morning, early, speedily, by the next morning; it being now night perhaps when he was in this distress, and put up...