Psalm 43:2 {42:2}
Good News Translation
You are my protector; why have you abandoned me? Why must I go on suffering from the cruelty of my enemies?

New Revised Standard Version
For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you cast me off? Why must I walk about mournfully because of the oppression of the enemy?

Contemporary English Version
I run to you for protection. Why do you turn me away? Why must enemies mistreat me and make me sad?

New American Bible
Send your light and your fidelity, that they may be my guide; Let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place of your dwelling,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?

the God

Psalm 28:7 The Lord is my helper and my protector: in him hath my heart confided, and I have been helped. And my flesh hath flourished again, and with my will I will give praise to him.

Psalm 140:7 O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle.

Exodus 15:2 The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God, and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

Isaiah 40:31 But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 45:24 For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue shall swear.

Zechariah 10:12 I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk in his name, saith the Lord.

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of his power.

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things in him who strengtheneth me.

why dost

Psalm 71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me.

Psalm 77:7 Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more favourable again?

Psalm 94:14 For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance.

1 Chronicles 28:9 And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek him, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

why go

Psalm 42:9 I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?

Context
Send Out Your Light
1A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man. 2For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?3Sent forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.…
Cross References
Job 30:28
I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.

Psalm 18:1
Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said: [2] I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:

Psalm 28:7
The Lord is my helper and my protector: in him hath my heart confided, and I have been helped. And my flesh hath flourished again, and with my will I will give praise to him.

Psalm 31:4
Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me: for thou art my protector.

Psalm 38:6
I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful all the day long.

Psalm 42:9
I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?

Psalm 44:9
In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever.

Psalm 88:14
Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?

Psalm 43:1
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