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Psalm 43
Exposition -
Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings
Hints to the Village Preacher -
Works Upon This Psalm
TITLE. On account of the similarity of the structure of
this Psalm to that of Psalm forty-two, it has been supposed to be a fragment
wrongly separated from the preceding song; but it is always dangerous to allow
these theories of error in Holy Scripture, and in this instance it would be very
difficult to show just cause for such an admission. Why should the Psalm have
been broken? Its similarity would have secured its unity had it ever been part
and parcel of the forty-second. Is it not far more likely that some in their
fancied wisdom united them wrongly in the few MSS in which they are found as
one? We believe the fact is that the style of the poetry was pleasant to the
writer, and therefore in after life he wrote this supplemental hymn after the
same manner. As an appendix it needed no title. David complains of his enemies,
and asks the privilege of communion with God as his surest deliverance from
them.
DIVISION. The psalmist cried to God in prayer, Ps 43:1-3.
Promises praise in the anticipation of an answer, Ps 43:4, and chides himself
for his despondency, Ps 43:5.
EXPOSITION
Verse 1. Judge me, O God. Others are unable to understand my
motives, and unwilling to give me a just verdict. My heart is clear as to intent
and therefore I bring my case before thee, content that thou wilt impartially
weigh my character, and right my wrongs. If thou wilt judge, thy acceptance of
my conduct will be enough for me; I can laugh at human misrepresentation if my
conscience knows that thou art on my side; thou art the only one I care for; and
besides, thy verdict will not sleep, but thou wilt see practical justice done to
thy slandered servant.
And plead my cause against an ungodly
nation. One such advocate as the Lord will more than suffice to answer a
nation of brawling accusers. When people are ungodly, no wonder that they are
unjust; those who are not true to God himself cannot be expected to deal rightly
with his people. Hating the King they will not love his subjects. Popular
opinion weighs with many, but divine opinion is far more weighty with the
gracious few. One good word from God outweighs ten thousand railing speeches of
men. He bears a brazen shield before him whose reliance in all things is upon
his God; the arrows of calumny fall harmlessly from such a buckler.
O deliver
me from the deceitful and unjust man. Deceit and injustice are boon
companions: he who fawns will not fear to slander. From two such devils none can
deliver us but God. His wisdom can outwit the craft of the vilest serpent, and
his power can over match the most raging lion. Whether this was Doeg or
Ahithophel is small matter, such double distilled villains are plentiful, and
the only way of dealing with them is to refer the matter to the righteous Judge
of all; if we try to fight them with their own weapons, we shall suffer more
serious injury from ourselves than from them. O child of God, leave these thine
enemies in better hands, remembering that vengeance belongeth not to thee, but
to thy Lord. Turn to him in prayer, crying, "O deliver me, "and ere long you
shall publish abroad the remembrance of his salvation.
Verse 2. For. Here is argument, which is the very sinew of
prayer. If we reasoned more with the Lord we should have more victories in
supplication.
Thou art the God of my strength. All my strength belongs to
thee--I will not, therefore, use it on my own behalf against my personal foes.
All my strength comes from thee, I therefore seek help from thee, who art able
to bestow it. All my strength is in thee, I leave therefore this task of
combating my foes entirely in thy hands. Faith which leaves such things alone is
wise faith. Note the assurance of David,
thou art, not I hope and trust
so, but I know it is so; we shall find confidence to be our consolation.
Why
dost thou cast me off? Why am I treated as if thou didst loathe me? Am I
become an offence unto thee? There are many reasons why the Lord might cast us
off, but no reason shall prevail to make him do so. He hath not cast off his
people, though he for awhile treats them as cast offs. Learn from this question
that it is well to enquire into dark providences, but we must enquire of God,
not of our own fears. He who is the author of a mysterious trial can best
expound it to us.
"Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain;
God is his own interpreter,
And he will make it plain."
Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Why do I wander hither and thither like a restless spirit? Why wear I the weeds
of sorrow on my body, and the lines of grief on my face? Oppression makes a wise
man mad; why, Lord, am I called to endure so much of it for so long a time? Here
again is a useful question, addressed to the right quarter. The answer will
often be because we are saints, and must be made like our Head, and because such
sorrow is chastening to the spirit, and yieldeth comfortable fruit. We are not
to cross question the Lord in peevishness, but we may ask of him in humility;
God help us to observe the distinction so as not to sin through stress of
sorrow.
Verse 3. O send out thy light and thy truth. The joy of thy
presence and the faithfulness of thy heart; let both of these be manifest to me.
Reveal my true character by thy light, and reward me according to thy truthful
promise. As the sun darts forth his beams, so does the Lord send forth his
favour and his faithfulness towards all his people; and as all nature rejoices
in the sunshine, even so the saints triumph in the manifestation of the love and
fidelity of their God, which, like the golden sunbeam, lights up even the
darkest surroundings with delightful splendour.
Let them lead me. Be
these my star to guide me to my rest. Be these my Alpine guides to conduct me
over mountains and precipices to the abodes of grace.
Let them bring me unto
thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. First in thy mercy bring me to thine
earthly courts, and end my weary exile, and then in due time admit me to thy
celestial palace above. We seek not light to sin by, nor truth to be exalted by
it, but that they may become our practical guides to the nearest communion with
God: only such light and truth as are sent us from God will do this, common
light is not strong enough to show the road to heaven, nor will mere moral or
physical truths assist to the holy hill; but the light of the Holy Spirit, and
the truth as it is in Jesus, these are elevating, sanctifying, perfecting; and
hence their virtue in leading us to the glorious presence of God. It is
beautiful to observe how David's longing to be away from the oppression of man
always leads him to sigh more intensely for communion with God.
Verse 4. Then will I go unto the altar of God. If David
might but be favoured with such a deliverance as would permit his return, it
would not be his own house or heritage which would be his first resort, but to
the altar of God his willing feet should conduct him. His whole heart would go
as sacrifice to the altar, he himself counting it his greatest happiness to be
permitted to lie as a burnt offering wholly dedicated to the Lord. With what
exultation should believers draw near unto Christ, who is the antitype of the
altar! clearer light should give greater intensity of desire.
Unto God my
exceeding joy. It was not the altar as such that the psalmist cared for,
he was no believer in the heathenism of ritualism: his soul desired spiritual
fellowship, fellowship with God himself in very deed. What are all the rites of
worship unless the Lord be in them; what, indeed, but empty shells and dry
husks? Note the holy rapture with which David regards his Lord! He is not his
joy alone, but his
exceeding joy; not the fountain of joy, the
giver of joy, or the maintainer of joy, but that joy itself. The margin hath it,
"The gladness of my joy, "
i.e., the soul, the essence, the very bowels of
my joy. To draw near to God, who is such a joy to us, may well be the object of
our hungering and thirsting.
Yea, upon the harp will I praise
thee. His best music for his best love. When God fills us with joy we ought
ever to pour it out at his feet in praise, and all the skill and talent we have
should be laid under contribution to increase the divine revenue of glory.
O
God, my God. How he dwells upon the name which he loves so well! He already
harps on it as though his harp music had begun. What sweeter sounds can music
know than these four words? To have God in possession, and to know it by faith,
is the heart's heaven--a fulness of bliss lies therein.
Verse 5. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? If God be thine,
why this dejection? If he uplifts thee, why art thou so near the ground? The dew
of love is falling, O withering heart, revive.
And why art thou
disquieted within me? What cause is there to break the repose of thy heart?
Wherefore indulge unreasonable sorrows, which benefit no one, fret thyself, and
dishonour thy God? Why overburden thyself with forebodings?
Hope in God,
or
wait for God. There is need of patience, but there is ground for
hope. The Lord cannot but avenge his own elect. The heavenly Father will not
stand by and see his children trampled on for ever; as surely as the sun is in
the heavens, light must arise for the people of God, though for awhile they may
walk in darkness. Why, then, should we not be encouraged, and lift up our head
with comfortable hope?
For I shall yet praise him. Times of
complaint will soon end, and seasons of praise will begin. Come, my heart, look
out of the window, borrow the telescopic glass, forecast a little, and sweeten
thy chamber with sprigs of the sweet herb of hope.
Who is the health of my
countenance, and my God. My God will clear the furrows from my brow,
and the tear marks from my cheek; therefore will I lift up my head and smile in
the face of the storm. The Psalm has a blessed ending, such as we would fain
imitate when death puts an end to our mortal existence.
EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS
Whole Psalm. This Psalm is evidently a continuation or
supplement to the preceding. In some MSS of Kenicott and de Rossi's, they are
united, and make one Psalm.
George Phillips, B.D.
Verse 1. Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, etc. Believers
may appeal to God's justice, and plead God's righteousness.
1. Touching suffering wrongs of men. Touching suffering wrongs of men, believers may appeal upon
these three grounds:
(a) The injustice that men do to believers, is as well against
God's just nature, as against the believers' ease. So their appeals to
God are agreeable to God's enmity against injustice; therefore, his enmity
concurs with their appeals. Ro 1:18.
(b) Justice in men is according to God's nature, as well as for
the believer's welfare, and, therefore, the disposition and inclination of God's
nature concurs with their prayers for deliverance. Ps 11:7 Lu 23:6-7.
(c) Such wrong God who do wrong his people 2Ch 15:11 Zec 2:8 Ac
9:4-5; so that in deliverance God vindicates himself as well as the believers.
2. Touching sin in relation to God's wrath. Touching sin in relation to God's wrath, a true believer may
plead God's justice or righteousness on these three grounds:
(a) Christ our Advocate or Attorney so pleads. Joh 17:24, etc.
Now, the client may plead the same as the advocate, seeing it is in relation to
the same party and the same issue.
(b) Christ hath satisfied God's justice, so that on Christ was
laid all the sins of all believers. He was "wounded" for them. Now, God cannot
in justice punish twice; therefore, seeing Christ was wounded, believers must be
healed. Isa 53:1-12.
(c). Believers have God's righteousness imputed to them 2Co
5:1-21; therefore, God must deal with believers as he will deal with his own
righteousness.
Useful is this doctrine two ways.
1. For terror to the enemies of believers. How many prevailing
cries to the justice of God are against such enemies? (a) Their own sins cry.
(b) Believers injuries cry. (c) Believer's prayers cry. (d) Christ's intercession cries over against their prayers and
desires Re 6:9, compared with Re 8:3.
2. The second use is for comfort to believers, that as God's
mercy is for them, so his justice to deliver them, not only from
men, but
from
sin; and in and through Christ they may humbly plead justice as
against sinners, so against sin; not only against the guilt but against the
power, that seeing Christ died, sin should not live.
Condensed from Nathanael
Homes, 1652.
Verse 1. Ungodly...deceitful...unjust. There are
ungodly men who, being destitute of religious principle, will not scruple
to injure us, when they can thereby gratify their passions or advance their
worldly interests. There are
deceitful men who will put on the garb of
friendship, and acquire our confidence and esteem, and then treacherously cheat
us out of our property, or our reputation, or our peace. There are
unjust
men, who by fraud or by violence, would rob us of our dearest rights and most
valuable possessions, and not only reduce our powers and opportunities of doing
good, but even diminish our means of comfortable subsistence. And there are
oppressors, who taking advantage of our weakness or dependence, and
trampling alike on the maxims of equity and humanity, may exact from us
unreasonable services, impose upon us heavy burdens and cruel restraints, and
ply us with insults, and harassments, and deprivations, from which we can make
no escape, and for which we can find no redress.
Andrew Thomson, D.D., in
"Lectures on Portions of the Psalms." 1826.
Verse 2. Thou art the God of my strength. The godly man hath
from God a threefold strength, namely, natural, providential, and spiritual.
1.
Natural, Ac 17:28. This is twofold: of body, of mind.
Of robustness, hardness, and agility of body; of wit, invention, and valour of
mind. Now, these donations of corporal and mental natural endowments are God's
gifts. Ps 18:34,39 ...
2.
Providential strength, which is threefold: (a) God's donation of strengthening
mercies--Corporal: wine
to make glad, and bread to strengthen. Ps 104:15, and mental, common gifts; as
Paul had a singular gift of language and single life; Apollos of elocution,
argument, power of convincing. (b) Providential strength is God's making way for his people to
act and put forth their strength. Ps 78:50. (c) Providential strength is God's concurrence with our lawful
human acting. Ps 18:29.
3. The third sort of power is
spiritual: God is the
godly man's spiritual power. 1Jo 2:14: "I have written unto you, young men,
because ye are strong, " namely, with spiritual strength, for it follows, "The
word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one." This is the
main strength of a godly man; as that text hints, namely, young men are
naturally strong, but St. John takes no notice of that, but commends them for
their spiritual strength. This spiritual strength is from the word of the
Spirit, and from the Spirit of the word, that is, from the Spirit accompanying
the word.
From
the word of the Spirit, the word of God. Ps
119:50: "This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me."
To be
"quickened, "i.e., enlivened, is to be full of vigour and spirit
and to act mightily, and to
"comfort" is, as the word signifies, to make
strong; for when a man is most cheerful with sobriety, he is most strong. St.
John in that place fore quoted, saith the young men to whom he wrote were strong
because the word of God abode in them. For Pr 12:25 "whereas sorrow in the heart
of man maketh it stoop" --makes it sickly, weak, drooping--"a good word maketh it
glad, "cheerful, strong, vigorous. And so if the word of a wise friend, how much
more the word of God, with its many strengthening promises? Ps 20:2 119:28. The
word of God is the very mind and will of God, and power of God, and with the
word God created the world, therefore, he that receives this word must needs
receive a great deal of strength. Ro 1:16.
Verse 2. The Spirit of the word, the Holy Spirit that
useth to accompany the word to them that receive it. By his Spirit God is in a
believer 1Co 6:9 Eph 2:1-22; and this is the spirit of strength and power. Eph
3:16 2Ti 1:7. As a powerful, active soul makes a vigorous body, so the Spirit in
the soul makes the soul powerful and strong, being the soul of the soul of a
believer. We read more than once or twice in the Scriptures, that when believers
did any eminent act, it is said,
the Spirit of the Lord came upon them, and
they did so and so,
i.e., the Spirit of God in them did them
put forth its power to make them act powerfully.
Condensed from Nathanael
Homes.
Verse 3. O send out thy light and thy truth. Possibly there
may be an allusion to the Urim and Thummim, as the symbol of light and truth.
J. J. Stewart Perowne.
Verse 3. Light and truth. Delightful and all comprehensive
words. Thy contain all the salvation and all the desire of a believing,
confiding soul. But it is only when thus combined--separated they are no longer a
ground of trust and joy. For what would favour avail without faithfulness? It
would be no more than the uncertain friendship of men, who smile today and
reproach tomorrow; who make large promises, but do not perform them. Even the
light which angels and glorified spirits enjoy in heaven would be
insufficient to banish all fear and to fill them with satisfaction, were it not
for their confidence in the
truth of God. How much more, then, must this
be the case with erring, sinful, mortals on earth? When the humble spirit is
bowed down under a sense of its utter unworthiness and innumerable weaknesses
and defilements, its negligences, follies, and wanderings, what should save from
despair but the confidence that he who has been merciful will also be faithful;
that God is truth as well as light; that he hath said, "I will never leave thee
nor forsake thee; "that he
"cannot lie, "and that, therefore, "his mercy
endureth for ever?" On the other hand,
truth without
light,
faithfulness without grace, would be only the dreadful execution of terrible but
just denunciations on the transgressors of the holy law. "In the day that thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Adam ate, and in that day became the
subject of sin and death. This was
truth executing judgment. But
light arose around the darkness; beams of mercy tempered the heavy cloud.
The promise of the Great Deliverer was given; then faithfulness was enlisted on
the side of grace, and became engaged for its bestowment; "mercy and truth met
together; righteousness and peace kissed each other." Since then, all humble and
trusting souls have beheld them united, and have made their union the ground of
their confidence and joy.
Henry March.
Verse 3. Thy tabernacles. There were two tabernacles, one at
Zion, where the ark stood, and another at Gibeon. 1Ch 16:37,39. It is not to
this fact that the psalmist alludes, however, but to the circumstance, in all
probability of the different parts of the tabernacle. There was, first the
holiest of all, then the sanctuary, and then the tabernacle of the convocation.
Heb 9:1-8.
John Morison.
Verse 4. Then will I go unto the altar of God. Let us
remember that the approach to God in the holy place is by means of the altar,
whence eternally ascendeth the fragrance and the preciousness of the one whole,
perfect burnt offering, and where for ever and ever the divine holiness resteth
and feedeth with its pure fire with infinite satisfaction, with inconceivable
delight. Oh, what a holy, a divine, a wondrous place is this
altar of
God! That altar now means all the value and everlasting efficacy of the one
offering of Christ unto God for us; and it is in the full power and blessedness
thereof that we draw nigh to God. To this point, to this unspeakably blessed
position, the light and the truth of God will attract the child of God. Toward
this altar all the rays of the light of divine favour and grace, and of divine
truth and holiness, have from eternity converged; and from this point they shine
forth toward and upon the soul and heart of the poor, far off penitent,
attracting him to that altar where he may meet his God. Let us then come to the
altar of God; let us enter the cloud of holy incense that filleth the tabernacle
of the Most High; let us realise how perfectly God is satisfied with that which
Christ has done, with his obedience in dying to meet the claims of divine
justice on the sinner, and to complete the perfect surrender of himself as our
exceeding joy, even the gladness of our joy, the heart, essence,
substance, and reality of our joy.
John Offord, 1868.
Verse 4. Then will I go unto the altar of God. He would with
cheerfulness run and offer up the sacrifice of thanksgiving to his gracious
deliverer; he would take his own soul as the burnt offering, and kindle and burn
it up with the fire of a vigorous love and raised affections terminating upon
God, the flames whereof should ascend to him alone...
Unto God my exceeding
joy, or, as the Hebrew is more exactly translated,
unto God the gladness
of his joy -- that which gave a relish to every other comfort, which was the
soul and life of his pleasures, and could only make them real and lasting; it
was God who raised his joy to fulness of satisfaction and contentment.
William Dunlop.
Verse 4. Then will I go...unto God. The expression of
going to God implies SUBMISSION and FRIENDSHIP
1.
Submission. I will go and pay my homage to him, as my
Sovereign; I will go and hear what he says; I will go and receive his orders.
2.
Friendship. I will go and consult him, and converse
with him as a friend; and be thankful that, in such a troublesome and ensnaring
world, I have such a friend to advise with.
(a) I will go and tell him my
griefs; how greatly I am
distressed with some particular disorder in my body, or with some disturbance in
my family, or with some disappointment in my worldly circumstances, or (which is
worse than all of them together) with a sad darkness in my soul.
(b) I will go
and tell him my
joys, for even in this vale of tears "my heart is"
sometimes "glad, and my glory rejoiceth."
(c) I will go and tell him of my
sins. He knows them, indeed, already, but he shall hear them from
me.
(d) I will go and tell him my
fears; how greatly I am
distressed at times, when I perceive this or the other corruption so strong,
which I thought had received its death wound... how I tremble when I have by my
folly provoked the Lord to leave me, for fear he will never return again, etc.
(e) I will go and tell him my
hopes, for some hope I have amidst all my
discouragements...I will go and tell him all this; I will unbosom and unburden
my whole heart to him; and if my
necessities did not drive me to him, I
should go to him from inclination.
Condensed from Samuel Lavington.
Verse 4. Unto God. Believers are not satisfied in the use of
religious duties, unless they arrive at God himself in those duties. We speak
not here of that arrival at God himself which is by and after all duties, to a
beatific vision of God in glory, but we speak of that arrival at God himself
which is to be had
in duties, while we are in the exercise of duties;
namely, to attain to God's special presence in them, in an actual communion,
communication and conversing with God, so that we are spiritually sensible he is
with us therein. I say God's
special presence and actual communion, to
distinguish it from that ordinary habitual presence and communion of God's being
with a believer at all times. Joh 14:16.
Nathanael Homes.
Verse 4. My exceeding joy. The psalmist might well call God
his
exceeding joy, for it infinitely exceeds all other joy in its nature,
degree, and duration.
Samuel Lavington.
Verse 4. My exceeding joy. As faith acquires more strength,
we come to think of God and address him in more endearing terms.
J. P.
Lange.
Verse 4. Exceeding joy. This can be said of no other joy.
All other beauties have their boundaries, all other glories have their glooms.
This is that illimitable sea, God.
E. Paxton Hood.
Verse 5. Why art thou cast down, O my soul. He comes to his
former remedy; he had stilled his grief once before with the same meditation and
upbraiding of his own soul, and chiding himself; but he comes to it here as a
probatum est, as a tried remedy; he takes up his soul very short,
Why
art thou so cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within
me? You see how David's passions here are interlaced with comforts, and his
comforts with passions, till at last he gets the victory of his own heart.
Beloved, neither sin nor grief for sin, are stilled and quieted at the first.
You have some short spirited Christians, if all be not quiet at the first, all
is lost with them; but it is not so with a true Christian soul, with the best
soul living. It was not so with David when he was in distemper; he checks
himself, the distemper was not yet stilled; he checks himself again, then the
distemper breaks out again; he checks himself again, and all little enough to
bring his soul to a holy, blessed, quiet, temper, to that blessed tranquillity
and rest that the soul should be in before it can enjoy its own happiness, and
enjoy sweet communion with God. As you see in physic, perhaps one purge will not
carry away the peccant humour, then a second must be added; perhaps that will
not do it, then there must be a third; so when the soul hath been once checked,
perhaps it will not do, we must fall to it again, go to God again. And then it
may be there will be breaking out of the grief and malady again; we must to it
again, and never give over, that is the right temper of a Christian.
Richard
Sibbes.
Verse 5. Hope in God. The more terrible the storm, the more
necessary is the anchor. Heb 6:19.
William S. Plumer.
Verse 5. Hope in God. The complete and perfect state of
God's children here is not in
re, but in
spe: as Christ's kingdom
is not of this world, so is not our hope. The worldling's motto is, "a bird in
the hand." Give me today, say they, and take tomorrow whoso will. But the word
of believers is,
spero meliora --my hopes are better than my present
possessions.
Elnathan Parr.
Verse 5. The varied conflicts of the soul afford occasion
for the exercise of the graces, and thus, through the divine wisdom and
goodness, are made the means of eventual good.
Henry March.
HINTS TO THE VILLAGE PREACHER
Verse 1. We apply to God--
1. As our
Judge:
Judge me.
2. As our
Advocate:
Plead my cause.
3. As our
Deliverer:
O deliver me.
Verse 1. Popular opinion outweighed by divine approbation.
Verse 1. How the Lord pleads the cause of his people.
Verse 1. Deceit and injustice twin vipers; their origin,
their character, their folly, their end.
Verses 1-2, 4-5. Five mys:
1. My cause--
"plead it."
2. My strength--
"thou art."
3. My joy--God is.
4. My soul--
"why disquieted."
5. My God.
Verse 3. O send out thy light and thy truth.
1. What is truth?
2. How truth is to be diffused.
3. Why it should be diffused.
4. Who must be the main agent of it.
Varied from Dr.
Bogue. 1800.
Verse 3. The blessings desired; the guidance sought; the end
longed for.
Verse 3. Under what influence we should resort to divine
worship.
Verse 4.
1. The good man's duty--expressed by
going to God.
2. His
blessedness --expressed by
rejoicing in
God. Samuel Lavington.
Verse 4. (first clause). When?
Then. Where?
Altar of God. Who?
I. Why?
My exceeding joy.
Verse 4. (second clause). It is God alone who can be
an exceeding joy to his creatures.
W. Dunlop's Sermons.
Verse 4. The joy of joy. The soul of soul joy.
Verse 4. The great object of public worship, its bliss, and
the praise resulting from attaining it.
Verse 4.
1.
The medium of joy, the altar of God, or God in Christ
Jesus.
2.
The springs of joy, or the attributes of God-- mercy,
justice, power, holiness, as seen in the atonement.
3.
The value of joy, as comfort, strength, etc.
Verse 4. God my exceeding joy. A most rich and precious
title.
Verse 4. (last clause). Possession, praise,
resolution.
Verse 5. Discouragement's recovery.
R. Sibbes
Sermons.
Verse 5. I shall yet praise him. I, even
I; shall,
sooner or later, most assuredly;
yet, despite troubles, foes, devils;
praise with gratitude, confidence, exultation;
him above all other
helpers, though now afflicting me.
Verse 5. Health of my countenance, removing that which mars
it-- sin, shame, fear, care, sorrow, weakness, etc.
WORKS UPON THE FORTY-THIRD PSALM
"Soul cordials against Sore Discomforts: in a Commentary or
Explanations and Applications of the whole Forty-third Psalm, " pp.
312-562 of
"The Works of Dr. Nathanael Homes, "1652 (folio).
In
"Sabbaths at Home." by HENRY MARCH, there is an
exposition of this Psalm. See
"Treasury of David, "Vol. II, Page 323.
Psalm 43:
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