Psalms 43:2 — King James Version← Study notes
“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?”
Psalms 43:2 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Psalms 43:211 words
ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.
Church Fathers on Psalms 43:2
1. This Psalm is a short one; it satisfies the mental cravings of the hearers, without imposing too severe a trial on the hunger of those fasting. Let our soul feed upon it; our soul, which he who sings in this Psalm, speaks of as “cast down;” cast down, I suppose, either in consequence of some fist, or rather in consequence of some hunger he was in. For fasting is a voluntary act; being an-hungered is an involuntary thing. That which is an-hungered, is the Church, is the…
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