Psalms 43

Psalms 43:1-5

Deliverance sought from Antichrist and his adherents. The forty-third psalm goes back to Jerusalem and the state of things there. In the former one; the “enemy” seems naturally to be rather the outside foe, the Gentile. In the present, it is the ungodly nation and the man of deceit and iniquity; with whom they are identifying themselves; -that is; Antichrist. He is “the liar,” as the apostle John says, who denying altogether the Father and the Son, -that is, the Christian revelation, -denies also, as to the Jewish, not that there is a Christ (a Messiah), but “that Jesus is the Christ” (1 John 2:22). Thus the psalmist now prays, “Send out Thy light and truth” and “they shall lead me; they shall bring me to Thy holy hill and to Thy tabernacles.” Gloriously will these be indeed displayed when the true Christ shall be revealed from heaven, and with the breath of His lips destroy the wicked one. Deliverance will then have come for the godly ones among the people, as in a moment; Israel’s holy places be restored, and their worship be resumed, never again to know interruption. As to the rest of the psalm, it is largely a repetition of the previous one; and in these outline-notes we need hardly dwell upon it.