Psalms 43

1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: from the deceitful and unjust man do thou deliver me.

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

2 For thou art the God of my fortress: why hast thou abandoned me? why must I walk about grieved, under the oppression of the enemy?

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 thou thy light and thy truth, these shall guide me; they shall bring me unto thy holy mountain, and to thy dwellings:

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 That I may go unto the altar of God, unto God the joy of my gladness; and that I may thank thee upon 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 art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet thank him, the salvation of my countenance, 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.