Psalms 43

1 Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, You deliver me from a man of deceit and perverseness,

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 strength. Why have You cast me off? Why do I go up and down mourning, In the oppression of an 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 forth Your light and Your truth, They lead me, they bring me in, To Your holy hill, and to Your dwelling places.

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 And I go to the altar of God, To God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank You with a 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 bow yourself, O my soul? And why are you troubled within me? Wait for God, for I still confess 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.