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The Book of Psalms, Chapter 43, Verse 2

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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
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?
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?
New English Translation
For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?
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?
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O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
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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.
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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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To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, [what] work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
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[How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
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For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
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Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
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Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
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For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
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But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.