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Psalms 43

Introduction

1  David, praying to be restored to the temple, promises to serve God joyfully.
5  He encourages his soul to trust in God.
Verse 1

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
A. M. 2983. B.C. 1021. (Title.) This Psalm is evidently a continuation of the preceding, and had the same author; and they are written as one in forty-six MSS. The sameness of subject, similarity of composition, and return of the same burden in both, are sufficient evidence of this opinion
Judge
7:8, 26:1, 35:24, 75:7, 1 Corinthians 4:4, 1 Peter 2:23
plead
35:1, 1 Samuel 24:15, Proverbs 22:23, 23:11, Micah 7:9
ungodly
or, unmerciful. the deceitful. Heb. a man of deceit and iniquity.
71:4, 2 Samuel 15:31, 16:20-23, 17:1-4
Verse 2

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
the God
28:7, 140:7, Exodus 15:2, Isaiah 40:31, 45:24, Zechariah 10:12, Ephesians 6:10, Philippians 4:13
why dost
71:9, 77:7, 94:14, 1 Chronicles 28:9
why go
42:9
Verse 3

O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
send
40:11, 57:3, 97:11, 119:105, 2 Samuel 15:20, Micah 7:8,20, John 1:4,17
lead
25:4,5, 143:10, Proverbs 3:5,6
thy holy
2:6, 3:4, 68:15,16, 78:68, 132:13,14
tabernacles
1 Chronicles 16:1,39, 21:29
Verse 4

Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
Then
66:13-15, 116:12-19
my exceeding joy
Heb. the gladness of my joy.
71:23, Isaiah 61:10, Habakkuk 3:17,18, Romans 5:11
upon
57:8, 71:22, 81:2, 2 Samuel 6:5, Revelation 5:8
O God
42:6
Verse 5

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
42:5,11
health
Yeshüôth, "salvations." or deliverances see Ps 44:4.

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