42:3. Sent forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles. 42:4. And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth. 42:5. To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me? 42:6. Hope in God, for I will still give pralise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God. Psalms Chapter 43 Deus auribus nostris. The church commemorates former favours, and present afflictions; under which she prays for succour. 43:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding. 43:2. 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. 43:3. Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst aflict the people and cast them out. 43:4. 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. 43:5. Thou art thyself my king andmy God, who commandest the saving of Jacob. 43:6. Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us. 43:7. For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me. 43:8. But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us. 43:9. In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever. 43:10. But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies. 43:11. Thou hast made kus turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves. 43:12. Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations. 43:13. Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them. 43:14. Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us. 43:15. Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people. 43:16. All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my face hath covered me, 43:17. At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor. 43:18. All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant. 43:19. And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way. 43:20. For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us. 43:21. If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god: