Psalm 43

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 43:21

If we. This is a Hebrew idiom, to express, we have not. (Worthington) read more

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 43:22

Slaughter. They will not suffer us to be quiet respecting our religion, striving to delude us: or, if we prove resolute, like Daniel, they expose us to torments. (Calmet) --- This was more fully verified at the first propagation of the gospel, (Romans viii. 36.) as it still continues to be among those, who cease not to persecute Catholics by artifice, as well as by open violence. Christians in every age (Haydock) are persecuted, more than the prophets (Worthington) generally were. (Haydock) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 43:23

Sleepest thou, seeming not to attend to our sufferings. (Menochius) --- End, shall we never be restored to favour? (Calmet) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 43:25

Dust. We are at death's door, being oppressed with grief, as long as thou dost not assist us. (Worthington) --- We petition in the most fervent (Haydock) and humble posture, Isaias xlix. 23., and Micheas vii. 17. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 43

* A petition for succour and relief. read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 43:1-5

Conclusion of the Preceding Psalm. The psalmist again opens with an appeal, followed by a vow of faithfulness to Jehovah and His worship. v. 1. Judge me, O God, vindicating his cause, and plead my cause, as the all-wise advocate against wickedness, against an ungodly nation, a generation of men not in God's favor. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man, who is full of falsehood and wickedness, devoid of every idea of right and justice. v. 2. For Thou art the God of my strength,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 43:1-5

THE PSALTERSECOND BOOKPsalms 42-72_______________Psalms 42:0To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks,So panteth my soul after thee, O God.2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God:When shall I come and appear before God?3 My tears have been my meat day and night,While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me:For I had gone with the multitude, I went... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Psalms 43:5

Psalms THE PSALMIST’S REMONSTRANCE WITH HIS SOUL Psa_43:5 . This verse, which closes this psalm, occurs twice in the previous one. It is a kind of refrain. Obviously this little psalm, of which my text is a part, was originally united with the preceding one. That the two made one is clear to anybody that will read them, by reason of structure, and tone, and similarity of the singer’s situation, and the recurrence of many phrases, and especially of these significant words of my text. The... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 43:1-5

“The Help of My Countenance” Psalms 43:1-5 The exiled king still pours out his soul to God. Already David has addressed Him as God of my life; here God appeals to David as God of my strength, Psalms 43:2 , and God, the gladness of my joy, Psalms 43:4 , r.v., margin. Speak well of thy God, even though His back seems turned on thee! Thy light and thy truth, Psalms 43:3 , may refer to the Urim and Thummim. Or we may think of them as two white-vestured angels sent from God’s presence-chamber... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 43:1-5

This psalm is either a part of the previous one or is closely connected with it. It breathes the same note of confidence, ending with the same words practically as the two parts of the former. It reaches a higher plane in that it refers only to sorrow and mourning in order to protest against them in the light of the certainty of God's deliverance. From prayer for that deliverance, which he has twice in the previous psalm declared to be certain, he passes to affirmation of how, following the... read more