Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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?
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?
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 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause, Against a nation, without lovingkindness, From the man of deceit and perversity, wilt thou deliver me? 2 For, thou, art my defending God - Wherefore hast thou rejected me? Wherefore in gloom should I wander, because of the oppression of an enemy? 3 Send forth thy light and thy faithfulness, Let, them, lead me, Let them bring me into thy holy mountain, and into thy habitations:
Cross References
Psalm 42:9
I will say onto GOD, - my rock, Wherefore hast thou forgotten me? Wherefore in gloom should I go, because of oppression by the enemy?
Psalm 28:7
Yahweh, is my strength and my shield, In him, hath trusted my heart, and I have found help, - Therefore hath my heart danced for joy, and, with my song, do I praise him.
Psalm 44:9
But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt not go forth with our hosts;
Exodus 15:2
My might and melody, is Yah, And he became mine, by salvation, - This, is my GOD, and I will glorify him, The God of my father and I will set him on high.
1 Chronicles 28:9
Thou, therefore, Solomon my son, Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing soul, for, all hearts, doth Yahweh search, and, every devised purpose, doth he understand, - If thou seek him, He will be found of thee, but, if thou forsake him, He will cast thee off for ever.
Psalm 31:4
Wilt thou bring me forth, out of the net which they have hidden for me? For, thou, art my refuge.
Psalm 71:9
Do not cast me off in the time of old age, When my vigour faileth, do not forsake me;
Psalm 77:7
For ages, will My Lord reject? And, not again, grant acceptance any more?
Psalm 94:14
For Yahweh, will not abandon, his people, And, his inheritance, will he not forsake;
Psalm 140:7
O Yahweh, My Lord, my saving strength, thou hast screened my head in the day of battle.
Isaiah 40:31
But, they who wait for Yahweh, shall renew their strength, They shall mount on strong pinion like eagles, - They shall run and not grew weary, They shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 45:24
Only in Yahweh - for me, Hath one said, Is there righteousness and strength, Unto him, shall come and turn pale - All who have been incensed against him:
Zechariah 10:12
And I will make them mighty in Yahweh, and, in his name, shall they march to and fro, - Declareth Yahweh.
Ephesians 6:10
For the rest, be empowering yourselves in the Lord, and in the grasp of his might:
Philippians 4:13
I have might, for all things, in him that empowereth me.