Psalm 43, side by side

Two versions of the same chapter. Each row is one verse, so you can see how the wording changes.

Modern

1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

Classic

1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Modern

2For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Classic

2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Modern

3Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

Classic

3O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

Modern

4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

Classic

4Then 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.

Modern

5Why 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.

Classic

5Why 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.

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