Psalms 143:2 meaning and explanation

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

Psalms 143:2, Berean Standard Bible

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David speaks these words to God while fleeing enemies who have crushed him to the ground, as the psalm's heading and surrounding verses show. He does not claim innocence but asks to be spared a strict accounting, since no living person could stand righteous before God.

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