< Psalms 43 >

1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
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 thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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.
O send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me: let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
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 unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: and upon the harp will I praise thee, 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 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.

< Psalms 43 >