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Psalms 43

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Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men. 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? Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God. 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.

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Psalms 43:2

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

And since patience is needful in order to endure, until the harvest, a certain distinction without separation, if we may so speak (for they are together with us, and therefore not yet separated; the tares however being still tares, and the grain still grain, and therefore they are already distinct); since then a kind of strength is needful, which must be implored of Him who bids us to be strong, and without whose making us strong, we should not be what He bids us to be; of Him who said, "He that endures unto the end shall be saved," …

Exposition on Psalm 43 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"Because you are my God." Here the reason for the deliverance is set forth; and it is twofold: one on God's part, who has the power; hence he says, "you are my strength." Is. 12: "My strength and my praise is the Lord." And He is called our strength effectively, because it comes from Him. Is. 40: "He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no strength He multiplies fortitude and vigor." The other reason is on his own part, namely the evils he suffers. …

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