Psalm 43:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² For thou art the God in whom I take refuge; why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off for ever.

Psalm 140:7

O Lord, my Lord, my strong deliverer, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Psalm 28:7

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

Psalm 31:4

take me out of the net which is hidden for me, for thou art my refuge.

Psalm 42:10

As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:9

I say to God, my rock: “Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Psalm 44:9

Yet thou hast cast us off and abased us, and hast not gone out with our armies.

Psalm 71:9

Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.

Psalm 77:7

“Will the Lord spurn for ever, and never again be favorable?

Psalm 88:15

Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer thy terrors; I am helpless.

Psalm 94:14

For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;

Exodus 15:2

The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.

Isaiah 40:31

but they who wait for 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.

Isaiah 45:24

“Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed, all who were incensed against him.

Zechariah 10:12

I will make them strong in the Lord and they shall glory in his name,” says the Lord.

Ephesians 6:10

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things in him who strengthens me.