43
Psalm 43 · Book Two
About this psalm
Five verses, no title, and the same refrain the psalm before it uses twice — Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Many old manuscripts run 42 and 43 together as one psalm, and reading them that way is the easiest way to feel what is happening: the thirst, then the asking, then the light and truth sent out to lead him back to the altar.
Read it straight after Psalm 42, without stopping.
One verse at a time, slowly
1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.2For thou art the God of my strength:why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?3O send out thy light and thy truth:let them lead me;let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy:yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God:for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
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