Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
New American Standard Bible
Why do I go
King James Version
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?
Holman Bible
For You are the God of my refuge.
Why have You rejected me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?
International Standard Version
Since you are the God who strengthens me, why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?"
A Conservative Version
For thou are the God of my strength. Why have thou cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
American Standard Version
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?
Amplified
For You are the God of my strength [my stronghold—in whom I take refuge]; why have You rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Darby Translation
For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Julia Smith Translation
For thou the God of my strength: why didst thou reject me? wherefore darkened shall I go about for the oppression of the enemy?
King James 2000
For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Lexham Expanded Bible
because you [are] the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?
Modern King James verseion
For You are the God of my strength; why do You cast me off? Why do I go mourning under the affliction of the enemy?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou put me from thee? And why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?
NET Bible
For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?
New Heart English Bible
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
The Emphasized Bible
For, thou, art my defending God - Wherefore hast thou rejected me? Wherefore in gloom should I wander, because of the oppression of an enemy?
Webster
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?
World English Bible
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Youngs Literal Translation
For thou art the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?
Interlinear
'elohiym
Zanach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 43:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Prayer For Rescue
1 Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man. 2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters? 3 O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.
Cross References
Psalm 42:9
I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
Psalm 28:7
The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.
Psalm 44:9
But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.
Exodus 15:2
The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory.
1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.
Psalm 31:4
Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.
Psalm 71:9
Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.
Psalm 77:7
Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?
Psalm 94:14
The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;
Psalm 140:7
O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight.
Isaiah 40:31
But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.
Isaiah 45:24
Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong: together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame and come to destruction.
Zechariah 10:12
And their strength will be in the Lord; and their pride will be in his name, says the Lord.
Ephesians 6:10
Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.
Philippians 4:13
I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.