Psalms 43:1

Verse 1. Understanding. See Psalms 41. Menochius.—David or the Corites composed this piece, to comfort the just under persecution. Bert.—It may allude to the situation of the Jews at Babylon, ( Calmet.) or under Antiochus Epiphanes, (Ven. Bede) though Saint Paul, (Romans 8:36) applies verse 22 to the persecutions of the primitive Christians, which seems to shew, that the whole psalm refers to them, (Bert.) as the Fathers have explained it. Yet it may literally be understood of the Israelites ( Calmet.) also, ( Bible.) as well as the Christian martyrs, since all things happened to the Israelites in figure. Worthington.