Psalms 43 | CSB Bible | YouVersion

Look, O LORD, and see how worthless I have become. 12 Is it nothing to you,[2] all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.

2 Samuel 22 David spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. 2He said: The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, 3 my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you sav

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us; we wait for light, and lo! there is darkness; and for brightness, but we walk in gloom. 10 We grope like the blind along a wall, groping like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among the vigorous[172] as though we were dead. 11 We all growl like bears

10 In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise, 11 in God I trust; I am not afraid. What can a mere mortal do to me? 12 My vows to you I must perform, O God; I will render thank offerings to you. 13 For you have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, so that I may walk before God in the light of life.

16 O Lord, by these things people live, and in all these is the life of my spirit.[107] Oh, restore me to health and make me live! 17 Surely it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but you have held back[109] my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back. 18 For Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot p

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right[102] spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me.

Psalm 27 is also a song of lament and of confidence in God.