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Psalms 43:1
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Psalms 43:1
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Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked.
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Psalms 43:1 in Other Translations
KJV
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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
ESV
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Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
NLT
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Declare me innocent, O God! Defend me against these ungodly people. Rescue me from these unjust liars.
MSG
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Clear my name, God; stick up for me against these loveless, immoral people. Get me out of here, away from these lying degenerates.
CSB
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Vindicate me, God, and defend my cause against an ungodly nation; rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Psalms 43:1 In-Context
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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.
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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.
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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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Judges 6:31
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1 Samuel 24:15
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Psalms 26:1
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Psalms 35:1
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Psalms 25:20
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Psalms 36:3
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Psalms 109:2
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Psalms 5:6
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In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm.
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