Summary of Psalms 43
The psalmist asks God to defend him against deceitful people. Feeling rejected, he prays, 'O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me' to God's holy hill. He longs to go to God's altar, to God his exceeding joy. Again he tells his soul not to be cast down but to hope in God.
Key verse
3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Psalms 43: full text (King James Version)
1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
2 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?
3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
4 Then 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.
5 Why 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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