Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 43:1

"Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man." — Psalms 43:1 (ASV)

An ungodly nation. —In Hebrew simply a negative term, a nation not khasîd, that is, not in the covenant. But naturally a positive idea of ungodliness and wickedness would attach to such a term.