PSALM Forty Three

 1 

Vindicate me, my God,

    and plead my cause

    against an unfaithful nation.

Rescue me from those who are

deceitful and wicked.

2 

You are God my stronghold.

    Why have you rejected me?

Why must I go about mourning,

    oppressed by the enemy?

3 

Send me your light and your faithful care,

    let them lead me;

let them bring me to your holy mountain,

    to the place where you dwell.

4 

Then I will go to the altar of God,

    to God, my joy and my delight.

I will praise you with the lyre,

    O God, my God.

5 

Why, my soul, are you downcast?

    Why so disturbed within me?

Put your hope in God,

    for I will yet praise him,

    my Saviour and my God.

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READING 

Psalm Forty Three

Read by David Suchet

OVERVIEWS

Psalms - Overviews

(The Bible Project)

The Book of Psalms

(The Bible Project)

STUDY - LINKS

How Should You Read the Psalms?

- John Piper - 

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Prayer in the Psalms: 

Discovering How to Pray

Timothy Keller 

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Psalms part 1 

-Study by David Pawson-

https://youtu.be/qB3QV713xm0

Psalms Part 2 

-Study by David Pawson-

https://youtu.be/hQJNMgIHVKwSONGS

Psalm 42 

Talking to Yourself, Not Listening to Yourself 

Meditation by Tim Keller

Psalm 42-43 | Why Are You Downcast, O My Soul?

SONGS 

Psalms 42 and 43

        Psalm 43 (Send Forth Thy Light)

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PSALM Forty Two

For the director of music. 

A maskil of the Sons of Korah.

1 

As the deer pants for streams of water,
    so my soul pants for you, my God.

2 

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
    When can I go and meet with God?

3 

My tears have been my food
    day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
    ‘Where is your God?’

4 

These things I remember
    as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go to the house of God
    under the protection of the Mighty One
with shouts of joy and praise
    among the festive throng.

5 

Why, my soul, are you downcast?
    Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
    for I will yet praise him,
    my Saviour and my God.

6 

My soul is downcast within me;
    therefore I will remember you
from the land of the Jordan,
    the heights of Hermon – from Mount Mizar.

7 

Deep calls to deep
    in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
    have swept over me.

8 

By day the Lord directs his love,
    at night his song is with me –
    a prayer to the God of my life.

9 

I say to God my Rock,
    ‘Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning,
    oppressed by the enemy?’

10 

My bones suffer mortal agony
    as my foes taunt me,
saying to me all day long,
    ‘Where is your God?’

11 

Why, my soul, are you downcast?
    Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
    for I will yet praise him,
    my Saviour and my God.

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READING 

Psalm Forty Two

Read by David Suchet

OVERVIEWS

Psalms - Overviews

(The Bible Project)

The Book of Psalms

(The Bible Project)

STUDY - LINKS

How Should You Read the Psalms?

- John Piper - 

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Prayer in the Psalms: 

Discovering How to Pray

Timothy Keller 

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Psalms part 1 

-Study by David Pawson-

https://youtu.be/qB3QV713xm0

Psalms Part 2 

-Study by David Pawson-

https://youtu.be/hQJNMgIHVKwSONGS

Psalm 42 

Talking to Yourself, Not Listening to Yourself 

Meditation by Tim Keller

- Finding God –Psalm 42

 Timothy Keller 

SONGS 

Psalm 42 (Loudest Praise) 

 Shane & Shane

Lord From Sorrows Deep I Call (Psalm 42)

https://youtu.be/nATJFlTjJF0

As The Deer [with lyrics]

Psalm 42, Psalm 43

Ian White

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