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Commentaries on Psalms 43:5

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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 time, and upon the same occasion as the preceding,...

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].

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 the very same with the ninth verse of the...

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!