Psalms 43

1 A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and discern my cause from that of a nation not holy; rescue me from a man unjust and deceitful.

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

2 For you are God, my strength. Why have you rejected me? And why do I walk in sadness, while the adversary afflicts me?

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 have guided me and led me, to your holy mountain and into your tabernacles.

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 will enter, up to the altar of God, to God who enlivens my youthfulness. To you, O God, my God, I will confess upon a stringed instrument.

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 are you sad, my soul? And why do you disquiet me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to 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.