Psalm 43: From Despair To Joyful Praise

Psalm 43: From Despair To Joyful Praise

Psalm 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Psalm 43:2 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?

Psalm 43:4 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.

Psalm 43:5 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

Psalm 44: Balancing Lament And Trust In God

Psalm 44:1 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.

Psalm 44:2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and planted them; how thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.

Psalm 44:3 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.

Psalm 44:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

Psalm 44:5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Psalm 44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

Psalm 44:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

Psalm 44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name forever. Selah.

Psalm 44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

Psalm 44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the heathen.

Psalm 44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Psalm 44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking ofthe head among the people.

Psalm 44:15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

Psalm 44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

Psalm 44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

Psalm 44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

Psalm 44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalm 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Psalm 44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off forever.

Psalm 44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Psalm 44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

Psalm 44:26 Arise for our help and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake

Psalm 45: Celebrating The Eternal Reign Of The King

Psalm 45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Psalm 45:2 Thou art fairer than the children of men; grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee forever.

Psalm 45:3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

Psalm 45:5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

Psalm 45:6 Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

Psalm 45:7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Psalm 45:8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

Psalm 45:9 Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Psalm 45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

Psalm 45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

Psalm 45:12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour.

Psalm 45:13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

Psalm 45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.

Psalm 45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

Psalm 45:17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee forever and ever.