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Sower with Setting Sun. Vincent van Gogh, mid July 1888. Sotheby's, New York, 18 November 2025, lot 4. Public domain.

Psalm 43

5 verses · Psalm of lament

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

The line breaks below follow the poem's own punctuation.

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.

For You are the God of my refuge.Why have You rejected me?Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?

Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me.Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy.I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

Why are you downcast, O my soul?Why the unease within me?Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

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