Psalms 43:1
Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
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2 Samuel 15:31Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
2 Samuel 18:8The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
Psalms 7:7Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.
Psalms 7:9Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
Psalms 35:1Of David. Contend with my opponents, O LORD; fight against those who fight against me.
Psalms 54:3For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God. 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 →