Psalm 43:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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?

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.

Psalm 43:2 Cross References

Psalm 42:9

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalm 28:7

The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: Therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; And with my song will praise him.

Ephesians 6:10

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

Isaiah 40:31

but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

Psalm 94:14

For the LORD will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Psalm 44:9

But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonour; And goest not forth with our hosts.

Zechariah 10:12

And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 45:24

Only in the LORD, shall one say unto me, is righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come, and all they that were incensed against him shall be ashamed.

Psalm 140:7

O GODthe Lord, the strength of my salvation, Thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Psalm 77:7

Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favourable no more?

Psalm 71:9

Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth.

1 Chronicles 28:9

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

Exodus 15:2

The LORD is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him.

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Psalm 31:4

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for me; For thou art my strong hold.

Psalm 42:10

As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me; While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Psalm 88:15

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.