Psalms 43

1 [a]Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked.
2 You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
3 Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.
5 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

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Cross References 17

  • 1. S Judges 6:31; 1 Samuel 24:15; Psalms 26:1; Psalms 35:1
  • 2. S Psalms 25:20
  • 3. S Psalms 36:3; Psalms 109:2; Psalms 5:6
  • 4. Psalms 44:9; Psalms 74:1; Psalms 88:14; Psalms 89:38
  • 5. S Psalms 35:14
  • 6. S Psalms 42:9
  • 7. Psalms 27:1; Psalms 36:9
  • 8. S Psalms 26:3
  • 9. S Psalms 25:5
  • 10. Psalms 2:6; Psalms 42:4
  • 11. S 2 Samuel 15:25; Psalms 84:1
  • 12. S Psalms 42:2
  • 13. Psalms 26:6; Psalms 84:3
  • 14. S Psalms 21:6
  • 15. Psalms 16:3
  • 16. S Genesis 4:21; Psalms 33:2
  • 17. S Psalms 42:6

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm.

Psalms 43 Commentaries

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