CHAPTER 43

THE EXODUS BOOK PROBABLY WRITTEN BY DAVID: PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THE UNGODLY

¹Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. (This Psalm also has three basic meanings: 1. David crying to God to be delivered from Absalom; 2. The Greater Son of David crying to God to be delivered from the evil religious leaders of Israel; and, 3. The Messiah crying to God in Israels place during the time of the Great Tribulation, with threatened destruction from the deceitful and unjust man, the Antichrist.)

²For You are the God of my strength: why do You cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? (In other words, Lord, Why have You allowed this?)

³O send out Your Light and Your Truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto Your Holy Hill, and to Your Tabernacles (a petition for the Lord to lead us will be answered favorably).

⁴Then will I go unto the Altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yes, upon the harp will I praise You, O God my God (despite the terrible distress, David never lost his song).

⁵Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the health of my countenance, and my God. (This Psalm ends exactly as the previous Psalm. David is praising the Lord now, but he will yet praise Him on the Holy Hill and in the Tabernacle.)