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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 43 This psalm is without a title; but may well enough be thought to be one of David's: and the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, and Syriac versions, call it a psalm of David, and the latter adds, when Jonathan told him that Saul intended to kill him; and certain it is, that it was wrote by the same person, at the same...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Judge me, O God,.... The Targum adds, with the judgment of truth; see Romans 2:2; and plead my cause; which was a righteous one; and therefore he could commit it to God to be tried and judged by him, and could put it into his hands to plead it for him; [See comments on Psalms 35:1]; against an ungodly nation; meaning either the Philistines, among...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
This psalm, it is likely, was penned upon the same occasion with the former, and, having no title, may be looked upon as an appendix to it; the malady presently returning, he had immediate recourse to the same remedy, because he had entered it in his book, with a "probatum est—it has been proved," upon it. The second verse of this psalm is almost...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. For thou art the God of my strength: In the previous Psalm, David had called the Lord the God of his life. Now he calls him the God of his strength. We generally sing ourselves up. We may begin in a very low key, as David did, but if we...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. Judge me, O God. Others are unable to understand my motives, and unwilling to give me a just verdict. My heart is clear as to intent and therefore I bring my case before thee, content that thou wilt impartially weigh my character, and right my wrongs. If thou wilt judge, thy acceptance of my conduct will be enough for me; I can laugh at...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thou [art] the God of my strength,.... Who being the strong and mighty God was able to deliver and save him, as well as to plead his cause; and was the author and giver of strength, natural and spiritual, to him; and was the strength of his heart, life and salvation; and is a good reason why he committed his cause unto him; why doest thou cast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: “My exceeding joy,”--exceeding all the other joys I have,--exceeding still the joys...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O send out thy light and thy truth,.... By light is meant, not the law, as Arama; but rather, as some Jewish (p) interpreters understand it, the Messiah, the sun of righteousness, and light of the world; who is the author of all light, natural, spiritual, and eternal; and whose coming into the world is often signified by being sent into it. The...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then will I go unto the altar of God,.... Which was in the tabernacle, either of burnt offerings, or of incense, there to offer up the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for mercies received. The altar under the Gospel dispensation is Christ, on which such sacrifices being offered, are acceptable to God, Hebrews 13:10; unto God my exceeding joy;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. It was not enough for David to say, “O God;” he cries, “O God my God.” You cannot praise another man’s God. Possession is not only nine points of the law, but it is all the points of the gospel.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Why art thou cast down, O my soul?.... [See comments on Psalms 42:5] and [See comments on Psalms 42:11].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. May the Lord comfort his mourning people by such words as these!