Psalms 43:2

For you are God my protector: why have you cast me off? Why must I walk so sadly, so hard pressed by the foe?

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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

1Right me, defend my cause against a pitiless people. From the crafty and crooked, O God, deliver me.

3Send forth your light and your truth, let them be my guides: to your holy hill let them bring me, to the place where you live.

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Cross References

Psalms 31:4Draw me out of the net they have hid for me, for you yourself are my refuge.

Psalms 42:10It pierces me to the heart to hear the enemy’s taunts, as all the day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”

Psalms 71:9Cast me not off in the time of old age; when my strength is spent, forsake me not.

Psalms 88:15From my youth I am wretched and dying, I am numbed by the terrors I bear.

Psalms 140:7O Lord my Lord, my savior mighty, you did cover 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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