Why art thou cast down O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? ... for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. See note, Psalms 42:5, "the help" or "the saving health of His countenance" is "the health of my countenance." The sufferer's countenance, once downcast with grief, is now brightened by the Lord lifting up the light of His countenance upon him. He therefore adds what was not in Psalms 42:5 - namely, "and my God." Thus, he closes with a triumph over the despondency into which he had been cast by his enemies.