Psalms 43:2

Your hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and you did plant them: you did afflict the nations, and cast them out. 1

LXX2012 (US English)

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

1O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which you wrought in their days, in the days of old. 1

3For they inherited not the land by their own sword, and their own arm did not deliver them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you were well pleased in them. 1

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9And now, my son Solomon, know the God of your fathers, and serve him with a perfect heart and willing soul: for the Lord searches all hearts, and knows every thought: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you should forsake him, he will forsake you for ever.

Psalms 31:4For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: I became thoroughly miserable while a + 31:4 See Heb. thorn was fastened in me. Pause. 1

Psalms 71:9The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. 1

Psalms 88:15Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance. 1

Psalms 140:7As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the mouth of the grave. 1

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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