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“O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.” Psalm 43:3
According to Matthew Henry, this psalm was likely “penned upon the same occasion with [Psalm 42]” (Henry 325). Drawing a likeness between David and Christ, Henry notes, “Christ, himself, who had the Spirit without measure, when there was occasion prayed a second and third time “saying the same words,” Matt 26.44″ (Henry 325). Therefore, when David encountered the same problem again in his life “he had immediate recourse to the same remedy, because he had entered it in his book, with a “probatum est – it has been proved,” upon it” (Henry 325). In other words, throughout his life, David had seen prayers answered and, because of this, he had confidence God would hear and answer his prayers, as He had done in the past, even if David had to go back multiple times with the same concerns; he did not lose faith.
Works Cited
Henry, Matthew. “Psalm 43.” Matthew Henry’s Commentary On the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition. Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., March 1996.
Holy Bible: Giant Print with Study Aids. Dugan Publishers, Inc., 1984.
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