Psalms 43

1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.

Right me, defend my cause against a pitiless people. From the crafty and crooked, O God, deliver me.

2 For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?

For you are God my protector: why have you cast me off? Why must I walk so sadly, so hard pressed by the foe?

3 Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.

Send forth your light and your truth, let them be my guides: to your holy hill let them bring me, to the place where you live.

4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

Then will I go to God’s altar, to God my rejoicing; and with joy on the lyre I will praise you, O God, my God.

5 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.

Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.