Psalms 43:6-16

6 in te inimicos nostros ventilabimus cornu et in nomine tuo spernemus insurgentes in nobis

7 non enim in arcu meo sperabo et gladius meus non salvabit me

8 salvasti enim nos de adfligentibus nos et odientes nos confudisti

9 in Deo laudabimur tota die et in nomine tuo confitebimur in saeculum diapsalma

10 nunc autem reppulisti et confudisti nos et non egredieris in virtutibus nostris

11 avertisti nos retrorsum post inimicos nostros et qui oderunt nos diripiebant sibi

12 dedisti nos tamquam oves escarum et in gentibus dispersisti nos

13 vendidisti populum tuum sine pretio et non fuit multitudo in commutationibus nostris

14 posuisti nos obprobrium vicinis nostris subsannationem et derisum his qui in circuitu nostro

15 posuisti nos in similitudinem gentibus commotionem capitis in populis

16 tota die verecundia mea contra me est et confusio faciei meae cooperuit me

Psalms 43:6-16 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.