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1Vindicate me, O God!
Fight for me against an ungodly nation!
Deliver me from deceitful and evil men!
2For you are the God who shelters me.[#tn Heb “God of my place of refuge,” that is, “God who is my place of refuge.” See Ps 31:4.]
Why do you reject me?
Why must I walk around mourning
because my enemies oppress me?
3Reveal your light and your faithfulness![#tn Heb “send.”; #sn God’s deliverance is compared here to a light which will lead the psalmist back home to the Lord’s temple. Divine deliverance will in turn demonstrate the Lord’s faithfulness to his people.]
They will lead me,
they will escort me back to your holy hill,
and to the place where you live.
4Then I will go to the altar of God,[#tn The cohortative expresses the psalmist’s resolve. Prefixed with the vav (ו) conjunctive it also expresses the result or outcome of the preceding verbs “lead” and “escort.”]
to the God who gives me ecstatic joy,
so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp.
5Why are you depressed, O my soul?[#tn Heb “Why do you bow down?”; #sn For poetic effect the psalmist addresses his soul, or inner self.]
Why are you upset?
Wait for God!
For I will again give thanks
to my God for his saving intervention.