Psalm 43:4 {42:4}
Good News Translation
Then I will go to your altar, O God; you are the source of my happiness. I will play my harp and sing praise to you, O God, my God.

New Revised Standard Version
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.

Contemporary English Version
Then I will worship at your altar because you make me joyful. You are my God, and I will praise you. Yes, I will praise you as I play my harp.

New American Bible
Why are you downcast, my soul? Why do you groan within me? Wait for God, for I shall again praise him, my savior and my God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.

Then

Psalm 66:13-15 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, . . .

Psalm 116:12-19 What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things that he hath rendered to me? . . .

my exceeding joy [heb.

Psalm 71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice, when I shall sing to thee; and my soul which thou hast redeemed.

Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God: for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation: and with the robe of justice he hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked with a crown, and as a bride adorned with her jewels.

Habakkuk 3:17,18 For the fig tree shall not blossom: and there shall be no spring in the vines. The labour of the olive tree shall fail: and the fields shall yield no food: the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls. . . .

Romans 5:11 And not only so: but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.

upon

Psalm 57:8 Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early.

Psalm 71:22 For I will also confess to thee thy truth with the instruments of psaltery: O God, I will sing to thee with the harp, thou holy one of Israel.

Psalm 81:2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

2 Samuel 6:5 But David and all Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of wood, on harps and lutes and timbrels and cornets and cymbals.

Revelation 5:8 And when he had opened the book, the four living creatures and the four and twenty ancients fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

O God

Psalm 42:6 And my God. My soul is troubled within my self: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and Hermoniim, from the little hill.

Context
Send Out Your Light
3Sent forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles. 4And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.5To 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?…
Cross References
Psalm 16:11
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand are delights even to the end.

Psalm 21:6
For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou shalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.

Psalm 26:6
I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:

Psalm 33:2
Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.

Psalm 42:2
My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?

Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

Psalm 57:8
Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early.

Psalm 71:22
For I will also confess to thee thy truth with the instruments of psaltery: O God, I will sing to thee with the harp, thou holy one of Israel.

Psalm 84:3
For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.

Joel 1:16
Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Psalm 43:3
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