Psalms 43:21

21 si obliti sumus nomen Dei nostri et %si; expandimus manus nostras ad deum alienum

Psalms 43:21 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.

Psalms 43:21 In-Context

19 et non recessit retrorsum cor nostrum et declinasti semitas nostras a via tua

20 quoniam humiliasti nos in loco adflictionis et cooperuit nos umbra mortis

21 si obliti sumus nomen Dei nostri et %si; expandimus manus nostras ad deum alienum

22 nonne Deus requiret ista ipse enim novit abscondita cordis quoniam propter te mortificamur omni die aestimati sumus sicut oves occisionis

23 exsurge quare dormis Domine exsurge %et; ne repellas in finem