Psalms 43:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 42:9 : 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • Ps 44:9 : 9 ¶ But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
  • Ps 28:7 : 7 The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
  • Ps 31:4 : 4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou [art] my strength.
  • Exod 15:2 : 2 The LORD [is] my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he [is] my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
  • Ps 71:9 : 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
  • Ps 77:7 : 7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
  • Ps 94:14 : 14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
  • Ps 140:7 : 7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
  • Isa 40:31 : 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.
  • Isa 45:24 : 24 Surely, shall [one] say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: [even] to him shall [men] come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
  • Zech 10:12 : 12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.
  • Eph 6:10 : 10 ¶ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
  • Phil 4:13 : 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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    9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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    11Why 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.

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    14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?

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    11[Wilt] not [thou], O God, [who] hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?

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    24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

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    5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance.

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    21Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

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