Psalm 43[a]

 

 

1                    Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; rescue me from the deceitful and wicked men.

 

2                    You are God my stronghold.  Why have you rejected me?  Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?

 

3                    Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.

 

4                    Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight.  I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.

 

5                    Why are you downcast, O my soul?  Why so disturbed within me?  Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.