David, praying to be restored to the temple, promises to serve God joyfully: he encourageth his soul to trust in God.
Title.— The subject of this Psalm is so much the same with that of the preceding, that one is strongly tempted to believe it to be a continuation of it, particularly as there is no title to interrupt. Mudge. There seems however this difference, that the former was written when the affairs of the Psalmist were at the worst; but this, when they began to amend; when he had greater hopes of repossessing his kingdom, and recovering the command of his beloved Zion, where the tabernacle of God resided.
Psalms 43:1. An ungodly nation— חסיד לא la chasid. Chasid generally signifies passively a person or nation favoured of God. Under which notion it is applied to the Jewish nation in general, and some favoured persons in particular; but sometimes it signifies actively generous, beneficent, or the like; therefore, if David here speaks of the people in rebellion against him, חסיד לא lo chasid must signify an ungenerous, unkind, and ungrateful nation. Achitophel will well answer the character of a deceitful and crooked man.