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THE MESSAGE
Psalms 43:1
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Vindicate me, God, and champion my causeagainst an unfaithful nation;rescue me from the deceitful and unjust person.
Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
God, defend me. Argue my case against those who don't follow you. Save me from liars and those who do evil.
Vindicate me, O God! Fight for me against an ungodly nation! Deliver me from deceitful and evil men!
Judge and vindicate me, O God; plead my case against an ungodly nation. O rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man!
Vindicate me, God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; Save me from the deceitful and unjust person!
Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
Ivdge me, O God, and defend my cause against the vnmercifull people: deliuer mee from the deceitfull and wicked man.
Give justice to me, O God, and plead my case against an unholy nation;Oh protect me from the deceitful and unrighteous man!
Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
Show that I am right, God! Defend me against everyone who doesn't know you; rescue me from each of those deceitful liars.
Judge me, God, and plead my cause against a faithless nation. Rescue me from those who deceive and from those who are unjust.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; deliver me from the deceitful and unrighteous man.
Defend me, God. Argue my case against those people who don't know you. Protect me from those evil liars.
JUDGE me, O God, and avenge my cause against a merciless people; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
O God, declare me innocent, and defend my cause against the ungodly; deliver me from lying and evil people!
Judge me, O God, and plead my case against an unfaithful nation. From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me,
Judge me, O God, and strive for my cause against a nation that is not godly. Deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Geue sentence vpon me (o God) & defende my cause agaynst the vnholy people: Oh delyuer me from the disceatfull & wicked man.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.
Be Thou my judge, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation;
Iudge mee, O God, and plead my cause against an vngodly nation; O deliuer me from the deceitfull and vniust man.
Iudge me O Lorde, and debate my cause with an vnnaturall people: oh delyuer me from the deceiptfull and wicked man.
Judge me, o God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
`The two and fourtithe salm. God, deme thou me, and departe thou my cause fro a folc not hooli; delyuere thou me fro a wickid man, and gileful.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Vindicate me, O God, And plead my cause against an ungodly nation; Oh, deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!
Declare me innocent, O God! Defend me against these ungodly people. Rescue me from these unjust liars.
Stand by me, O God, and speak in my favor against a sinful nation. Save me from the lying and sinful man.
Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from those who are deceitful and unjust deliver me!
Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause, Against a nation, without lovingkindness, From the man of deceit and perversity, wilt thou deliver me?
(42-1) <A psalm for David.> Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.
Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from deceitful and unjust men deliver me!
Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,
Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
am 2983, bc 1021 - Title This Psalm is evidently a continuation of the preceding, and had the same author; and they are written as one in forty-six manuscripts The sameness of subject, similarity of composition, and return of the same burden in both, are sufficient evidence of this opinion.
Judge: Psalms 7:8, Psalms 26:1, Psalms 35:24, Psalms 75:7, 1 Corinthians 4:4, 1 Peter 2:23
plead: Psalms 35:1, 1 Samuel 24:15, Proverbs 22:23, Proverbs 23:11, Micah 7:9
ungodly: or, unmerciful
the deceitful: Heb. a man of deceit and iniquity, Psalms 71:4, 2 Samuel 15:31, 2 Samuel 16:20-23, 2 Samuel 17:1-4
Reciprocal: Genesis 16:5 - the Lord Genesis 30:6 - God Genesis 32:11 - Deliver 1 Samuel 24:12 - Lord judge 2 Samuel 15:12 - the people 2 Samuel 15:30 - and wept as he went up 2 Samuel 18:8 - General 2 Chronicles 20:12 - wilt Job 23:4 - order Psalms 5:6 - the bloody Psalms 17:1 - Hear Psalms 22:1 - my God Psalms 31:1 - deliver Psalms 44:24 - Wherefore Psalms 54:1 - judge Psalms 71:2 - in thy Psalms 119:43 - for I have Psalms 119:154 - Plead Psalms 140:1 - Deliver Jeremiah 11:20 - revealed Jeremiah 50:34 - plead Lamentations 3:59 - judge
Cross-References
Then a famine came to the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live; it was a hard famine. As he drew near to Egypt, he said to his wife, Sarai, "Look. We both know that you're a beautiful woman. When the Egyptians see you they're going to say, ‘Aha! That's his wife!' and kill me. But they'll let you live. Do me a favor: tell them you're my sister. Because of you, they'll welcome me and let me live."
God said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh saying, ‘Me? Have a baby? An old woman like me?' Is anything too hard for God ? I'll be back about this time next year and Sarah will have a baby."
The famine got worse. When they had eaten all the food they had brought back from Egypt, their father said, "Go back and get some more food."
Their father Israel gave in. "If it has to be, it has to be. But do this: stuff your packs with the finest products from the land you can find and take them to the man as gifts—some balm and honey, some spices and perfumes, some pistachios and almonds. And take plenty of money—pay back double what was returned to your sacks; that might have been a mistake. Take your brother and get going. Go back to the man. And may The Strong God give you grace in that man's eyes so that he'll send back your other brother along with Benjamin. For me, nothing's left; I've lost everything."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Judge me, O God,.... The Targum adds, with the judgment of truth; see Romans 2:2;
and plead my cause; which was a righteous one; and therefore he could commit it to God to be tried and judged by him, and could put it into his hands to plead it for him; Romans 2:2- :;
against an ungodly nation; meaning either the Philistines, among whom he was; or his own nation, when they joined his son Absalom in rebellion against him: some understand it of the great numbers that were with Saul, when he was persecuted by him;
O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man; either Absalom, who, under pretence of a vow he had vowed in Hebron, got leave of David to go thither, and then engaged in a conspiracy against him; or Ahithophel, who had been his friend and acquaintance, but now joined with Absalom. It is true of Saul, who, under pretence of friendship, sought his ruin, and to whom he expressed himself almost in the same words here used; see 1 Samuel 18:17.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Judge me, O God - This does not mean, Pronounce sentence upon me; but, Undertake my cause; interpose in my behalf; do justice in the case. He regarded his own cause as right; he felt that he was greatly wronged by the treatment which he received from people, and he asks to have it shown that he was not guilty of what his enemies charged on him; that he was an upright man, and a friend of God. See Psalms 7:8, note; Psalms 26:1, note.
And plead my cause - See the notes at Psalms 35:1. “Against an ungodly nation.” Margin, unmerciful. Literally, “from a nation not merciful,” or not; religious. The idea is, that the nation or people referred to manifested none of the spirit of religion in their conduct toward him; that he was treated with severity and injustice. This entire description would agree well with the state of things in the time of the rebellion of Absalom, when David was driven from his home and his throne: 2 Samuel 15:0, following.
O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man - Margin, as in Hebrew, from a man of deceit and iniquity. This would apply well to the case and character of Absalom, or perhaps more directly and properly to the character and counsel of Ahithophel, among the leading conspirators in the rebellion of Absalom, to whose counsels much of the rebellion was owing: 2 Samuel 15:31; compare 2 Samuel 16:23; 2Sa 17:14, 2 Samuel 17:23.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
PSALM XLIII
The psalmist begs God to take his part against his enemies,
1, 2;
to send his light and truth to guide him to the tabernacle, 3;
promises, if brought thither, to be faithful in the Divine
service, 4;
chides himself for despondency, and takes courage, 5.
NOTES ON PSALM XLIII
There is no title to this Psalm in the Hebrew, nor in the Chaldee. The Syriac says it was composed "by David when Jonathan told him that Saul intended to slay him." The Arabic says of this, as of the preceding, that it is a prayer for the backsliding Jews. It is most evidently on the same subject with the forty-second Psalm, had the same author or authors, and contains the remaining part of the complaint of the captive Jews in Babylon. It is written as a part of the forty-second Psalm in forty-six of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS.
Verse Psalms 43:1. Judge me, O God, and plead my cause — ריבה ריבי ribah ribi, a forensic term, properly enough translated, plead my cause, be my counsellor and advocate.
Ungodly nation — The Babylonians; the impious, perfidious, wicked, and deceitful Babylonians.
The deceitful and unjust man. — Nebuchadnezzar.
