Chapter 43

The psalmist asks God to vindicate him and send out his light and truth to lead him to God's holy hill. He repeats the refrain: Why are you cast down, O my soul? Hope in God.

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

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 Ps. 43:2; Ps. 42:9 of this psalm is almost the very same with the Ps. 43:2; Ps. 42:9 of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Psa 43:1-5. Excepting the recurrence of the refrain, there is no good reason to suppose this a part of the preceding, though the scope is the same. It has always been placed separate. 1. Judge--or, “vindicate” (Psa 10:18). plead, &c.--(Psa 35:1). ungodly--neither in character or condition objects of God’s favor (compare Psa 4:3).