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Psa 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Ver. 1. **Judge me, O God** ] This psalm is, as it were, an epitome or an appendix to the former, and little differing in words or matter.
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**Plead my cause** ] See [Psalms 35:1](../../../kjv/psalms/35/1) .
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**Against an ungodly nation** ] Heb. a nation not mild or merciful; so he calleth Absalom’s complices, who sought and would have sucked his blood. Such are a people of God’s wrath and of his curse.
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**O deliver me, &c.** ] From Absalom, or Ahithophel, or the whole faction.

Psa 43:2 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?
Ver. 2. **For thou art the God of my strength** ] As being in covenant with me, both offensive and defensive. In the Lord Jehovah is a Rock of ages, or everlasting strength, [Isaiah 26:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/26/4) , for God of my strength, [Psalms 42:9](../../../kjv/psalms/42/9) , is my rock.
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**Why go I mourning** ] See [Psalms 42:9](../../../kjv/psalms/42/9) .

Psa 43:3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Ver. 3. **O send out thy light** ] *i.e.* Thy comforting grace, opposed to that, [Psalms 43:2](../../../kjv/psalms/43/2) , I go mourning, or in black.
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**And thy truth** ] *i.e.* Thy faithfulness, opposed to the deceitful man, [Psalms 43:1](../../../kjv/psalms/43/1) . The Rabbis interpret light and truth by Christ and Elijah; the Arabic maketh it a prayer for the Jews’ conversion, *Lux et veritas piorum comites.*
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**Yet them bring me unto thy holy hill** ] Zion, the place of holy assemblies for God’s service, *Iterum commendatur hic dignitas ministerii publici: Vae igitur illis qui caducorum bolorum usum reditaunt sacri ministerii iactura, qui conciones sacras et sacramenta ultro negligunt, &c.*
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**And to thy tabernacles** ] So called, either because it was set up at sundry times in sundry places, while it was transportative; or else because it was parted by veils into several rooms, [Hebrews 9:2-3](../../../kjv/hebrews/9/2-3) .

Psa 43:4 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.
Ver. 4. **Then will I go unto the altar of God** ] Not without store of sacrifices. God’s service is now nothing so costly; and should, therefore, be more cheerfully performed. Heathens had their altars, &c., all save the Persians.

Psa 43:5 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.
Ver. 5. **Why art thou bowed down, &c.** ] See [Psalms 42:5](../../../kjv/psalms/42/5) ; [Psalms 42:11](../../../kjv/psalms/42/11) .

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