“hope thou in God”

PSALM 42:5

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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This encouraging scripture is a prayer asking for us to have hope in God so that he may be present with us to make us whole.

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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

— Psalm 42:5

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hope הוֹחִ֣לִי To wait; by implication, to be patient, hope H3176
thou in God: לֵֽ֭אלֹהִים Gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative H430

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