Psalm 43:2 - English Standard Version 2016 For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
“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 forever.
O Lord, my Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
you take me out of the net they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge.
As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
But you have rejected us and disgraced us and have not gone out with our armies.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.
For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;
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.
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.
“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.
I will make them strong in the Lord, and they shall walk in his name,” declares the Lord.