Teks -- Psalms 43:3-5 (NET)

43:3 Reveal your light and your faithfulness! They will lead me, they will escort me back to your holy hill, and to the place where you live. 43:4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp. 43:5 Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Psa 43:3 - Send out

That is, actually discover them.

Wesley: Psa 43:3 - Truth

Thy favour, or the light of thy countenance, and the truth of thy promises made to me; or the true - light, the illumination of thy spirit, and the direction of thy gracious providence, whereby I may be led in the right way, to thy holy hill.

Wesley: Psa 43:3 - Hill

Of Zion, the place of God's presence and worship.

JFB: Psa 43:3 - light

As in Psa 27:1.

JFB: Psa 43:3 - truth

Or, "faithfulness" (Psa 25:5), manifest it by fulfilling promises. Light and truth are personified as messengers who will bring him to the privileged place of worship.

JFB: Psa 43:3 - tabernacles

Plural, in allusion to the various courts.

JFB: Psa 43:4 - the altar

As the chief place of worship. The mention of the harp suggests the prominence of praise in his offering.

Clarke: Psa 43:3 - O send out thy light and thy truth

O send out thy light and thy truth - We are in darkness and distress, O send light and prosperity; we look for the fulfillment of thy promises, O send forth thy truth. Let thy fight guide me to thy holy hill, to the country of my fathers; let thy truth lead me to thy tabernacles, there to worship thee in spirit and in truth.

Clarke: Psa 43:4 - Then will I go unto the altar

Then will I go unto the altar - When thy light - a favorable turn on our affairs, leads us to the land of our fathers, and thy truth - the fulfillment of thy gracious promises, has placed us again at the door of thy tabernacles, then will we go to thy altar and joyfully offer those sacrifices and offerings which thy law requires, and rejoice in thee with exceeding great joy.

Clarke: Psa 43:5 - Why art thou cast down

Why art thou cast down - Though our deliverance be delayed, God has not forgotten to be gracious. The vision, the prophetic declaration relative to our captivity, was for an appointed time. Though it appear to tarry, we must wait for it. In the end it will come, and will not tarry; why then should we be discouraged? Let us still continue to trust in God, for we shall yet praise him for the fullest proofs of his approbation in a great outpouring of his benedictions

Calvin: Psa 43:4 - And I will go to the altar of God

4.And I will go to the altar of God Here he promises to God a solemn sacrifice, in commemoration of the deliverance which he should obtain from him; for he speaks not only of the daily or ordinary service, but in making mention of the altar on which it was customary to offer the peace-offerings, he expresses the token of gratitude and thanksgiving of which I have spoken. For this reason, also, he calls God the God of his joy, because, being delivered from sorrow, and restored to a state of joy, he resolves to acknowledge openly so great a benefit. And he calls him the joy of his rejoicing, that he may the more illustriously set forth the grace of his deliverance. The second word in the genitive is added by way of an epithet, and by it he signifies that his heart had been filled with joy of no common kind, when God restored him, contrary to the expectation of all. As to the fifth verse, I have already treated of it sufficiently in the preceding psalm, and therefore deem it superfluous to speak of it here.

Defender: Psa 43:5 - cast down

Compare Psa 42:5, Psa 42:11. Evidently Psa 43:1-5 is continuing the theme of Psa 42:1-11."

TSK: Psa 43:3 - send // lead // thy holy // tabernacles

send : Psa 40:11, Psa 57:3, Psa 97:11, Psa 119:105; 2Sa 15:20; Mic 7:8, Mic 7:20; Joh 1:4, Joh 1:17

lead : Psa 25:4, Psa 25:5, Psa 143:10; Pro 3:5, Pro 3:6

thy holy : Psa 2:6, Psa 3:4, Psa 68:15, Psa 68:16, Psa 78:68, Psa 132:13, Psa 132:14

tabernacles : 1Ch 16:1, 1Ch 16:39, 1Ch 21:29

TSK: Psa 43:4 - Then // my exceeding joy // upon // O God

Then : Psa 66:13-15, Psa 116:12-19

my exceeding joy : Heb. the gladness of my joy, Psa 71:23; Isa 61:10; Hab 3:17, Hab 3:18; Rom 5:11

upon : Psa 57:8, Psa 71:22, Psa 81:2; 2Sa 6:5; Rev 5:8

O God : Psa 42:6

TSK: Psa 43:5 - cast down // health

cast down : Psa 42:5, Psa 42:11

health : Yeshuoth , ""salvations""or deliverances. See note on Psa 44:4.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Psa 43:3 - Send out // Thy light and thy truth // Unto thy holy hill // To thy tabernacles

Send out i.e. actually impart and discover them; for at present thou seemest to conceal and withhold them from me.

Thy light and thy truth i.e. thy favour, or the light of thy countenance, and the truth of thy promises made to me; as God’ s mercy and truth oft go together, as 2Sa 15:20 Psa 61:7 Psa 89:14 , &c. Or this may be a figure called hendiaduo , whereby light and truth is put either for the light of God’ s truth ; or rather, for true light, the illumination of God’ s Spirit, and the direction of providence, his gracious whereby he might be led (as it follows) in the right way, which would bring him to God’ s holy hill.

Unto thy holy hill to wit, of Zion, the place of God’ s presence and worship.

To thy tabernacles i.e. tabernacle; which he calls tabernacles , either,

1. Because there were now two tabernacles, one at Zion, where the ark was; and another at Gibeon, 1Ch 16:37,39 . Although he here seems to speak but of one of them, even of that which was upon God’ s holy hill. Or,

2. Because of the several parts of it, the most holy, and the holy place, and the church. These indeed were in that of Gibeon, but not in that of Zion. Or rather,

3. By a mere enallage of the number, the plural for the singular; which is frequent, as in other words, so in those which belong to this matter, as tabernacles , Psa 46:4 , and sanctuaries , Lev 26:31 Psa 73:17 , &c.; Psa 74:7 Jer 51:51 . Nay, the most holy place, though but one simple part, is by the Greeks called holies . So in other authors, we read the rivers of Nilus , of that one river; and right hands , for one right hand; and many like phrases.

Poole: Psa 43:4 - Then will I go unto the altar of God // My exceeding joy

Then will I go unto the altar of God to offer sacrifices of thanksgiving for my deliverance.

My exceeding joy the principal author and matter of all my joy and comfort.

Haydock: Psa 43:3 - Plantedst them // Out

Plantedst them, thy people. See Jeremias ii. 21., and xii. 10., and Ezechiel xvii. 6. ---

Out, by means of insects, &c., Wisdom xii. 8., and Josue xxiv. 12. (Calmet) ---

The Hebrews were miraculously assisted, (Worthington) without any merit of their own, (Calmet) as all were wicked at first. Yet Abraham was freely chosen, that the visible Church might be preserved. (Worthington)

Haydock: Psa 43:5 - Saving

Saving ( salutes ) the manifold instances of protection. (Haydock)

Gill: Psa 43:3 - O send out thy light and thy truth // let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles

O send out thy light and thy truth,.... By light is meant, not the law, as Arama; but rather, as some Jewish ^p interpreters understand it, the Messiah, the sun of righteousness, and light of the world; who is the author of all light, natural, spiritual, and eternal; and whose coming into the world is often signified by being sent into it. The Spirit of God also is the enlightener of men, both at first conversion and afterwards, and is sent down into their hearts as a comforter of them, by being the Spirit of adoption. The Gospel of Christ is a great and glorious light, which, with the Holy Ghost, is sent down from heaven; though perhaps here rather may be meant the light of God's countenance, the discoveries of his favour and lovingkindness, which produce light, life, joy, peace, and comfort: and by "truth" may be meant, either Christ himself, who is the truth; or the Gospel the word of truth; or rather the faithfulness of God in the fulfilment of his promises; and so the words are a petition that God would show forth his lovingkindness, and make good his word, which would be of the following use:

let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles; that is, to the place of public worship, where the tabernacle was, the "hill" where it was, which seems to be Mount Zion; and is called "holy"; not that there was any real holiness in it; only relative, because of the worship of God in it; and the "tabernacle" is called "tabernacles", because of the holy place and the most holy place in it; the one being the first, the other the second tabernacle, as in Heb 9:2; and this hill and tabernacles represented the church and ordinances of God, to which such who are possessed of light and truth are led.

Gill: Psa 43:4 - Then will I go unto the altar of God // unto God my exceeding joy // yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God

Then will I go unto the altar of God,.... Which was in the tabernacle, either of burnt offerings, or of incense, there to offer up the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for mercies received. The altar under the Gospel dispensation is Christ, on which such sacrifices being offered, are acceptable to God, Heb 13:10;

unto God my exceeding joy; as over the mercy seat, upon a throne of grace, and as his covenant God; or this is exegetical of the altar, which is Christ, God over all, blessed for ever; and who is the object of the unspeakable joy of his people, in his person, righteousness, and salvation;

yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God: the harp is a musical instrument, used in that part of public worship which concerned the praise of God under the former dispensation, and was typical of that spiritual melody made in the hearts of God's people when they sing his praise, see Rev 5:8.

Gill: Psa 43:5 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul

Why art thou cast down, O my soul?.... See Gill on Psa 42:5 and See Gill on Psa 42:11.