Psalms 43:4
For they inherited not the land by their own sword, and their own arm did not deliver them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou wert well pleased in them.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
5Thou art indeed my King and my God, who commandest deliverances for Jacob.
Cross References
2 Samuel 6:5And David and the children of Israel were playing before the Lord on well-tuned instruments mightily, and with songs, and with harps, and with lutes, and with drums, and with cymbals, and with pipes.
Psalms 33:2I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall be continually in my mouth.
Psalms 57:8They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
Psalms 63:2Hear my prayer, O God, when I make my petition to thee; deliver my soul from fear of the enemy.
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 →