(KJV) Psalm 431

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⥃Send Out Your Light 2

[1] Judge3 me, O God, and plead4 my cause against an ungodly5 nation: O deliver me from the deceitful6 and unjust man. [2] For thou [art] the God7 of my strength: why dost8 thou cast me off? why go9 I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? [3] O send10 out thy light and thy truth: let them lead11 me; let them bring me unto thy holy12 hill, and to thy tabernacles13. [4] Then14 will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy15: yea, upon16 the harp will I praise thee, O God17 my God. [5] Why art thou cast down18, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health19 of my countenance, and my God.

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  1. am 2983, bc 1021 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. ↩

  2. Ps 43:1, David, praying to be restored to the temple, promises to serve God joyfully; Ps 43:5, He encourages his soul to trust in God. ↩

  3. Ps 7:8, Ps 26:1, Ps 35:24, Ps 75:7; 1Cor 4:4; 1Pet 2:23 ↩

  4. Ps 35:1; 1Sam 24:15; Prov 22:23, Prov 23:11; Mic 7:9 ↩

  5. or, unmerciful ↩

  6. Heb. a man of deceit and iniquity, Ps 71:4; 2Sam 15:31, 2Sam 16:20-23, 2Sam 17:1-4 ↩

  7. Ps 28:7, Ps 140:7; Exod 15:2; Isa 40:31, Isa 45:24; Zech 10:12; Eph 6:10; Phil 4:13 ↩

  8. Ps 71:9, Ps 77:7, Ps 94:14; 1Chr 28:9 ↩

  9. Ps 42:9 ↩

  10. Ps 40:11, Ps 57:3, Ps 97:11, Ps 119:105; 2Sam 15:20; Mic 7:8, Mic 7:20; John 1:4, John 1:17 ↩

  11. Ps 25:4-5, Ps 143:10; Prov 3:5-6 ↩

  12. Ps 2:6, Ps 3:4, Ps 68:15-16, Ps 78:68, Ps 132:13-14 ↩

  13. 1Chr 16:1, 1Chr 16:39, 1Chr 21:29 ↩

  14. Ps 66:13-15, Ps 116:12-19 ↩

  15. Heb. the gladness of my joy, Ps 71:23; Isa 61:10; Hab 3:17-18; Rom 5:11 ↩

  16. Ps 57:8, Ps 71:22, Ps 81:2; 2Sam 6:5; Rev 5:8 ↩

  17. Ps 42:6 ↩

  18. Ps 42:5, Ps 42:11 ↩

  19. Yeshuoth, "salvations" or deliverances. See note on Ps 44:4. ↩