Psalm 43:2 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

² For thou the God art of my strength; why thrusts thou me thee fro'? For th' enemy's oppression why do I mourning go?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For You are the God of my strength [my Stronghold–in Whom I take refuge]; why have You cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

American Standard Version (1901)

² For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Common English Bible

² Because you are my God, my protective fortress! Why have you rejected me? Why do I have to walk around, sad, oppressed by enemies?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² We have heard, O God, with our own ears. Our fathers have announced to us the work that you wrought in their days and in the days of antiquity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, The work, thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.

Psalm 43:2 Cross References

Psalm 140:7

O God the Lord, who art the strength of my salvation: A cov'ring in the day of war my head thou hast put on.

Psalm 28:7

The Lord's my strength and shield; my heart upon him did rely; And I am helped: hence my heart doth joy exceedingly, And with my song I will him praise.

Psalm 31:4

And sith thou art my strength, therefore pull me out of the net, Which they in subtilty for me so privily have set.

Psalm 42:10

'Tis as a sword within my bones, when my foes me upbraid; Ev'n when by them, Where is thy God? 'tis daily to me said.

Psalm 42:9

And I will say to God my rock, Why me forgett'st thou so? Why, for my foes' oppression, thus mourning do I go?

Psalm 44:9

But now we are cast off by thee, and us thou putt'st to shame; And when our armies do go forth, thou go'st not with the same.

Psalm 71:9

O do not cast me off, when as old age doth overtake me; And when my strength decayed is, then do not thou forsake me.

Psalm 77:7

For ever will the Lord cast off, and gracious be no more?

Psalm 88:15

Distress'd am I, and from my youth I ready am to die; Thy terrors I have borne, and am distracted fearfully.

Psalm 94:14

For sure the Lord will not cast off those that his people be, Neither his own inheritance quit and forsake will he: