Psalms 43 – Compare Chapter Translations
Verse-by-verse comparison of Psalms 43 across supported Bible translations.
Verse 1
KJV Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
ASV Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
WEB Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
YLT Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,
DRB Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding.
DBY Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; deliver me from the deceitful and unrighteous man.
GNV Judge me, O God, and defend my cause against the vnmercifull people: deliuer mee from the deceitfull and wicked man.
LSB Give justice to me, O God, and plead my case against an unholy nation; Oh protect me from the deceitful and unrighteous man!
Verse 2
KJV 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?
ASV 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?
WEB 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?
YLT For thou <FI>art<Fi> the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?
DRB We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, The work thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.
DBY For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
GNV For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou put me away? why goe I so mourning, when the enemie oppresseth me?
LSB 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?
Verse 3
KJV O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
ASV Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me: Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, And to thy tabernacles.
WEB Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
YLT Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They--they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.
DRB Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.
DBY Send out thy light and thy truth: *they* shall lead me, *they* shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations.
GNV Sende thy light and thy trueth: let them leade mee: let them bring mee vnto thine holy Mountaine and to thy Tabernacles.
LSB Oh send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy mountain And to Your dwelling places.
Verse 4
KJV 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.
ASV Then will I go unto the altar of God, Unto God my exceeding joy; And upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.
WEB Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
YLT And I go in unto the altar of God, Unto God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank Thee with a harp, O God, my God.
DRB For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.
DBY Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto the God of the gladness of my joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.
GNV Then wil I go vnto the altar of God, euen vnto the God of my ioy and gladnes: and vpon the harpe wil I giue thanks vnto thee, O God, my God.
LSB Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.
Verse 5
KJV 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.
ASV 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 help of my countenance, and my God. Psalm 44 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil.
WEB Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
YLT 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!
DRB Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.
DBY Why art thou cast down, 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.
GNV Why art thou cast downe, my soule? and why art thou disquieted within mee? waite on God: for I will yet giue him thankes, he is my present helpe, and my God.
LSB Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him, The salvation of my presence and my God.
Verse 6
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DRB Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.
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Verse 7
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DRB For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.
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Verse 8
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DRB But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us.
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Verse 9
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DRB In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
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Verse 10
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DRB But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou , O God, wilt not go out with our armies.
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Verse 11
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DRB Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves.
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Verse 12
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DRB Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.
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Verse 13
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DRB Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
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Verse 14
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DRB Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
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Verse 15
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DRB Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people.
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Verse 16
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DRB All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my face hath covered me,
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Verse 17
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DRB At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.
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Verse 18
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DRB All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.
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Verse 19
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DRB And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.
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Verse 20
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DRB For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us.
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Verse 21
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DRB If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:
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Verse 22
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DRB Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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Verse 23
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DRB Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.
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Verse 24
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DRB Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?
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Verse 25
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DRB For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.
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Verse 26
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DRB Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name's sake.
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