Psalms 43:1

Right me, defend my cause against a pitiless people. From the crafty and crooked, O God, deliver me.

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

In Context

2For you are God my protector: why have you cast me off? Why must I walk so sadly, so hard pressed by the foe?

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Cross References

Psalms 7:7Gather the nations about you, and sit on your lofty throne,

Psalms 7:9Put an end to the wrong of the wicked, protect the righteous. Searcher of hearts and minds, righteous God.

Psalms 35:1Contend, Lord, with those who contend with me, do battle with those who do battle with me.

Psalms 54:3For proud men have risen against me, and terrible men seek my life, men who do 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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