Psalms 43:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

For you are the God of my strength; why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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  • Ps 42:9 : 9 I will say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • Ps 44:9 : 9 But You have cast us off and put us to shame; and do not go 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 rejoices, and with my song I will praise him.
  • Ps 31:4 : 4 Pull me out of the net that they have secretly laid for me: for you are my strength.
  • Exod 15:2 : 2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind: for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
  • Ps 71:9 : 9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
  • Ps 77:7 : 7 Will the Lord cast off forever? and will He be favorable 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, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
  • Isa 40:31 : 31 But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
  • Isa 45:24 : 24 Surely, they shall say, In the LORD I have righteousness and strength. To Him shall men come; and all who are incensed against Him shall be ashamed.
  • Zech 10:12 : 12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD, and they shall walk in his name, says 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 who strengthens me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 42:9-11
    3 verses
    88%

    9 I will say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

    10 As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?

    11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

  • 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

  • 14 LORD, why do you cast off my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

  • 11 Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? And will not you, O God, go forth with our hosts?

  • 10 Will You not, O God, who had cast us off? And You, O God, who did not go out with our armies?

  • 1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

  • 24 Why do you hide your face, and hold me as your enemy?

  • Ps 43:3-5
    3 verses
    78%

    3 O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your tabernacles.

    4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; yes, upon the harp I will praise you, O God my God.

    5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

  • Ps 42:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance.

    6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore I will remember You from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

  • 1 O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

  • 9 Do not hide Your face from me; do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help. Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

  • 1 Why do You stand afar off, O LORD? Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

  • 21 Do not forsake me, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me.

  • 4 Pull me out of the net that they have secretly laid for me: for you are my strength.

  • Ps 13:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 How long will You forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

    2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

  • 10 Because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have lifted me up and cast me down.

  • 19 But do not be far from me, O LORD; O my strength, hurry to help me.

  • 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?

  • Ps 44:23-24
    2 verses
    76%

    23 Awake, why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off forever.

    24 Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

  • 14 But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.

  • 9 But You have cast us off and put us to shame; and do not go forth with our armies.

  • 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

  • 3 For you have been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

    4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • 4 Then I said, I am cast out of Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.

  • 21 You have become cruel to me: with Your strong hand You oppose Yourself against me.

  • 11 Saying, God has forsaken him; pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

  • 1 O God, You have cast us off, You have scattered us, You have been displeased; O turn to us again.

  • 13 O spare me, so I may recover strength, before I go away and am no more.

  • 13 You thrust hard at me that I might fall, but the LORD helped me.

  • 10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be my helper.

  • 6 Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I.

  • 4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

  • 9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.

  • 17 To you, O my strength, I will sing, for God is my defense and the God of my mercy.

  • 22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

  • 18 And I said, My strength and my hope perished from the LORD.

  • 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

  • 6 I said to the LORD, You are my God; hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.

  • 49 And who brings me forth from my enemies: you also have lifted me up on high above those who rose up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.

  • 39 For you have girded me with strength for the battle: you have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

  • 2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.