Psalms 43:4

‘These things I remember,

And pour out my soul upon me,

How I was wont to go regularly with the throng,

And walked in procession with them to the house of God,

With the voice of joy and praise,

A festive crowd keeping holyday.'

The idea here is not that he just remembers the joys of the past, but that he speaks to himself and makes it quite clear to himself. His soul, as it were, speaks to his inner heart. And he brings home to himself the joy of his regular experiences at the three great feasts of Israel, when he had regularly gone with the crowd of worshippers and had walked in procession with them to the House of God, crying out with joy and praise. It was a festive crowd keeping holyday. It is this very thought, with its confidence and certainty in the power and goodness of God, which now causes him to lift himself up. Should a man who has a God like he has mope? With a God like Israel's, past blessings are a guarantee of future glory.