Verse Lens · Context pointer
Psalms 143:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
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Role in This Section
Psalm 143:10: The petition “Teach me to do thy will” belongs to the prayer “A servant pleads for mercy, guidance, and life,” not to an isolated command.
Read It With
- Psalms 143:1–12
Read Psalms 143:10 with 143:1–12. Read alone, “Teach me to do thy will” could lose the individual voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 143:1–12, the individual voice carries the movement “A servant pleads for mercy, guidance, and life” as part of “A servant pleads for mercy, guidance, and life.” Its penitential-lament form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Why It Needs Context
The line “Teach me to do thy will” is a premise, image, address, response, or transition inside Psalms 143:1–12; its parallel neighbors and the movement titled “A servant pleads for mercy, guidance, and life” must supply the claim before teaching or application.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Psalms 143:1–12 — A servant pleads for mercy, guidance, and lifeSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 143:1–12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 143:1–12
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