Psalm 42:5

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Summary

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

Why art thou cast down

Hope

Praise him

Matthew 28:20

Bible References

Why art thou cast down

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.

I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.

And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.

And he took with him Peter and James and John, and grief and great trouble came on him.

Hope

I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.

Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.

But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise.

Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.

I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.

Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.

For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

Praise him

For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

May the Lord's approval be resting on you and may he give you peace.

See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.

Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.