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Psalms 43:1

Be Thou my judge, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

In Context

2For Thou art the God of my strength; why hast Thou cast me off? Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?

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Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31And one told David, saying: 'Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.' And David said: 'O LORD, I pray Thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.'

2 Samuel 18:8For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

Psalms 7:7(7-8) And let the congregation of the peoples compass Thee about, and over them return Thou on high.

Psalms 7:9(7-10) Oh that a full measure of evil might come upon the wicked, and that Thou wouldest establish the righteous; for the righteous God trieth the heart and reins.

Psalms 35:1A Psalm of David. Strive, O LORD, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me.

Psalms 54:3(54-5) For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul; they have not set God before them. Selah

Matthew Henry on Psalms 43:1

This psalm, it is likely, was penned upon the same occasion with the former, and, having no title, may be looked upon as an appendix to it; the malady presently returning, he had immediate recourse to the same remedy, because he had entered it in his book, with a "probatum est—it has been proved," upon it. The second verse of this psalm is almost the very same with the ninth verse of the foregoing psalm, as the fifth of this is exactly the same with the eleventh of that. Christ himself, who had the Spirit without… Read the whole commentary →

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