Psalms 43:2

For thou are the God of my strength. Why have thou cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

In Context

1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against a profane nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

3O send out thy light and thy truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind, for LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be

Psalms 31:4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for thou are my stronghold.

Psalms 42:10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me; while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?

Psalms 71:9Cast me not off in the time of old age. Forsake me not when my strength fails.

Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.

Psalms 140:7O lord LORD, the strength of my salvation, thou have covered my head in the day of battle.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 43:2-5

Appeals and Petitions. 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 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. 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. 5 Why art thou cast… Read the whole commentary →

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