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Psalms 43:1

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause, Against a nation, without lovingkindness, From the man of deceit and perversity, wilt thou deliver me?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 my defending God—Wherefore hast thou rejected me? Wherefore in gloom should I wander, because of the oppression of an enemy?

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Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31And, unto David, it was told, saying, Ahithophel, is among the conspirators with Absolom. And David said, Turn to foolishness, I pray thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Yahweh.

2 Samuel 18:8And the battle there was spread out over the face of all the land,—and the forest devoured more of the people than the sword devoured on that day.

Psalms 7:7When, the assembly of peoples, gather round thee, then, above it—on high, do thou return!

Psalms 7:9Let the wrong of the lawless, I pray thee, come to an end, and establish thou him that is righteous,—for, a trier of hearts and reins, is God the righteous one.

Psalms 35:1Contend, O Yahweh, with them who contend with me, Make war upon them who make war upon me.

Psalms 54:3For, aliens, have risen up against me, And, men of violence, have sought my life, 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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