2 For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
I will say unto ùGod my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart confided in him, and I was helped: therefore my heart exulteth, and with my song will I praise him.
My strength and song is Jah, and he is become my salvation: This is my ùGod, and I will glorify him; My father's God, and I will extol him.
And thou, Solomon my son, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searches all hearts, and discerns all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cut thee off for ever.
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
Jehovah, the Lord, is the strength of my salvation: thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
but they that wait upon Jehovah shall renew [their] strength: they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not tire; they shall walk, and not faint.
And I will strengthen them in Jehovah; and they shall walk in his name, saith Jehovah.
For the rest, brethren, be strong in [the] Lord, and in the might of his strength.
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Commentary on Psalms 43 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 43
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 measure, when there was occasion prayed a second and third time "saying the same words,' Mt. 26:44. In this psalm.
Psa 43:1-5
David here makes application to God, by faith and prayer, as his judge, his strength, his guide, his joy, his hope, with suitable affections and expressions.