Psalms 42:11
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
KJV
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, Who isthe help of my countenance, and my God.
ASV
בְּ/רֶ֤צַח בְּֽ/עַצְמוֹתַ֗/י חֵרְפ֥וּ/נִי צוֹרְרָ֑/י בְּ/אָמְרָ֥/ם אֵלַ֥/י כָּל הַ֝/יּ֗וֹם אַיֵּ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽי/ךָ
Hebrew
What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!
YLT
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
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3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Those who do not yet actively experience within themselves a living faith in Christ or an assured confidence of heart, peace of conscience, a zeal for childlike obedience, and a glorying in God through Christ, but who nevertheless use the means through which God has promised to work these things in us — they ought not to be alarmed at the mention of reprobation, nor to count th…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 13:13 — And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
- 1Kgs 8:38 — What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
- 1Sam 30:6 — And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the
- 1Thess 5:8 — But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
- 2Cor 4:9 — Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
- Heb 6:19 — Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
- Heb 11:1 — Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
- Isa 50:10 — Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
- Jer 30:17 — For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
- Jer 33:6 — Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
- Job 21:4 — As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
- Jonah 2:7 — When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
- Lam 3:20 — My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
- Lam 3:24 — The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
- Matt 9:12 — But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
- Prov 12:25 — Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
- Ps 6:3 — My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
- Ps 42:5 — Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
- Ps 42:5 — Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
- Ps 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.
- Ps 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.
- Ps 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 t
- Ps 62:5 — My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
- Ps 63:1 — O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
- Ps 74:1 — O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
- Ps 77:3 — I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
- Ps 84:4 — Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
- Ps 119:50 — This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
- Ps 131:2 — Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.