Psalms 43
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David endeavours to still his spirit, with hope and confidence in God
Verse 1
WEB Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
KJV Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
TSK Judge: ps 7:8, ps 26:1, ps 35:24, ps 75:7, 1co 4:4, 1pe 2:23; plead: ps 35:1, 1sa 24:15, pr 22:23, pr 23:11, mic 7:9; the deceitful: ps 71:4, 2sa 15:31, 2sa 16:20-23, 2sa 17:1-4
Verse 2
WEB 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?
KJV 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?
TSK the God: ps 28:7, ps 140:7, ex 15:2, isa 40:31, isa 45:24, zec 10:12, eph 6:10, php 4:13; why dost: ps 71:9, ps 77:7, ps 94:14, 1ch 28:9; why go: ps 42:9
Verse 3
WEB Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
KJV O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
TSK send: ps 40:11, ps 57:3, ps 97:11, ps 119:105, 2sa 15:20, mic 7:8,20, joh 1:4,17; lead: ps 25:4,5, ps 143:10, pr 3:5,6; thy holy: ps 2:6, ps 3:4, ps 68:15,16, ps 78:68, ps 132:13,14; tabernacles: 1ch 16:1,39, 1ch 21:29
Verse 4
WEB Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
KJV Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
TSK Then: ps 66:13-15, ps 116:12-19; my exceeding joy: ps 71:23, isa 61:10, hab 3:17,18, ro 5:11; upon: ps 57:8, ps 71:22, ps 81:2, 2sa 6:5, re 5:8; O God: ps 42:6
Verse 5
WEB Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
KJV Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
TSK Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the: ps 42:5,11