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Psalms 43:1-5

Psalms 43:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

EXPOSITION

THE close connection of this psalm with the preceding has been already noticed (see the introduction to .). We must not, however, suppose an accidental detachment. Rather , is a supplementary stanza, added subsequently by the same or a different writer. Being intended as a continuation, the psalm has naturally no title.

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