Psalms 42:11

Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.

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In The King James Version

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

In Context

10It pierces me to the heart to hear the enemy’s taunts, as all the day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”

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Cross References

Psalms 42:5Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.

Psalms 79:10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let revenge for the outpoured blood of your servants be shown on the heathen before our eyes.

Psalms 115:2Why should the heathen say, “Where is now their God?”

Matthew 9:12On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are ill.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 42:7-11

Complaints and Consolations. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 8 Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the… Read the whole commentary →

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