Holy Scripture
Psalms 42:2
A church father on this verse
“The person, however, who has once tasted virtue and has come to understand its nature by his own experience of the good is no longer the kind of person who must be dragged away from his passionate attachment to evil by necessity and warning and compelled to look to virtue. On the contrary, he has an excessive thirst f…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2For thou, O God, art my strength: wherefore hast thou cast me off? And why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?
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In context
1A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: Deliver me from the unjust and crafty man.
— Psalms 42:2 —
3Send forth thy light and thy truth: They have led me, and brought me to thy holy mountain, And to thy tabernacles.
4And I will go in to the altar of God, To God who gladdens my youth: I will give thanks to thee on the harp, O God, my God.