Psalms 43:5 meaning and explanation

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Psalms 43:5, Berean Standard Bible

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Psalm 43 is a prayer of someone cut off from Jerusalem and surrounded by hostile people, and verse 5 is the refrain the psalmist speaks to himself. The Hebrew word for soul, nephesh, means his whole self, not a separate inner part.

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