Psalms 43:1-3

1 ^[a]Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked.

2 You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?

3 Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.

Psalms 43:1-3 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 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, seeing some of the same expressions are used in it, see Ps 42:1, title; and some take this and the preceding to be but one psalm, and this might be written with that on account of the rebellion of his son Absalom.

Cross References

• 1. S Judges 6:31; 1 Samuel 24:15; Psalms 26:1; Psalms 35:1
• 2. S Psalms 25:20
• 3. S Psalms 36:3; Psalms 109:2; Psalms 5:6
• 4. Psalms 44:9; Psalms 74:1; Psalms 88:14; Psalms 89:38
• 5. S Psalms 35:14
• 6. S Psalms 42:9
• 7. Psalms 27:1; Psalms 36:9
• 8. S Psalms 26:3
• 9. S Psalms 25:5
• 10. Psalms 2:6; Psalms 42:4
• 11. S 2 Samuel 15:25; Psalms 84:1

Footnotes

• [a]. In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm.