Psalms 43:2

World English Bible (2000)

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 42:9 : 9 I will ask 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 now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't go out with our armies.
  • Ps 28:7 : 7 Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
  • Ps 31:4 : 4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.
  • Exod 15:2 : 2 Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh 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 Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.
  • Ps 77:7 : 7 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
  • Ps 94:14 : 14 For Yahweh won't reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
  • Ps 140:7 : 7 Yahweh, 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 for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
  • Isa 45:24 : 24 They will say of me, 'There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.'" Even to him shall men come; and all those who were incensed against him shall be disappointed.
  • Zech 10:12 : 12 I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name," says Yahweh.
  • Eph 6:10 : 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
  • Phil 4:13 : 13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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    9 I will ask 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 adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

    11 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

  • Ps 43:1
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    1 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

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    14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

  • Ps 108:11
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    11 Haven't you rejected us, God? You don't go forth, God, with our armies.

  • Ps 60:10
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    10 Haven't you, God, rejected us? You don't go out with our armies, God.

  • Ps 22:1
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  • Job 13:24
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    24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

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    3 Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.

    4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

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    5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

    6 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

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    9 Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

  • Ps 10:1
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    1 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

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    21 Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me.

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    4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

  • Ps 13:1-2
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    1 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

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    19 But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.

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

  • Ps 44:23-24
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    23 Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.

    24 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

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    14 But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."

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