Why 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.
⛓ Read Psalm 43 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The repeated refrain 'Why are you cast down, O my soul?' continues into Psalm 43, the twin lament of 42, and undergirds Jesus' 'my soul is sorrowful even to death.' Its recurrence as a fixed refrain strengthens the allusion, and the psalmist's longing for God's deliverance coheres with Jesus' prayer that the hour might pass.
High confidencethe same refrain 'Why are you in despair, O my soul?' recurs in Ps 43:5, reinforcing the borrowed lament language of v38.
High confidence