1 1 In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm. Vindicate me, O God,
and plead my cause against an ungodly nation;
rescue me from 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. |