Psalm 43:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² For You are the Elohim of my strength. Why have You rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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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

1 Chronicles 28:9

“As for you, my son Shelomoh, know the Elohim of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a pleasing life, for יהוה  searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you do seek Him, He is found by you; but if you forsake Him, He rejects you forever.

Psalm 140:7

“O Master יהוה, my saving strength, You have screened my head in the day of battle.

Psalm 28:7

יהוה  is my strength, and my shield; My heart has trusted in Him, and I have been helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I thank Him.

Psalm 31:4

Bring me out of the net which they have hidden for me, For You are my stronghold.

Psalm 42:10

My enemies have reproached me, Like a crushing of my bones, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your Elohim?”

Psalm 42:9

I say to Ě

Psalm 44:9

Yet You have rejected us and put us to shame, And You do not go with our armies.

Psalm 71:9

Do not cast me off in the time of old age, When my strength fails, do not forsake me.

Psalm 77:7

Would יהוה  reject forever, And never again be pleased?

Psalm 88:15

I am afflicted and dying from childhood; I have borne frightening matters from You; I am in despair.

Psalm 94:14

For יהוה  does not leave His people, Nor does He forsake His inheritance.

Exodus 15:2

“Yah is my strength and song, and He has become my deliverance. He is my Ě

Isaiah 40:31

but those who wait on יהוה  renew their strength, they raise up the wing like eagles, they run and are not weary, they walk and do not faint.

Isaiah 45:24

“One shall say, ‘Only in יהוה  do I have righteousness and strength’ – he comes to Him. And all those displeased with Him shall be put to shame.

Zechariah 10:12

“And I shall make them mighty in יהוה, so that they walk up and down in His Name,” declares יהוה.

Ephesians 6:10

For the rest, my brothers, be strong in the Master and in the mightiness of His strength.

Philippians 4:13

I have strength to do all, through Messiah who empowers me.