Psalms 43

1 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against a faithless nation. Oh, deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Judge me, O God! and defend my cause against a merciless nation! Deliver me from unjust and deceitful men!

2 For you, God, are my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Thou art the God of my refuge: why dost thou cast me off? Why go I mourning on account of the oppression of the enemy?

3 Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy mountain, To your tents.

O send forth thy light and thy truth; let them guide me; Let them lead me to thy holy mountain, and to thy dwelling-place!

4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

Then will I go to the altar of God, To the God of my joy and exultation; Yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God!

5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God. For I will again give him thanks, my saving presence 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, Him, my deliverer and my God!