¹Vindicate me, God, and champion my cause[#Ps 43 Many Hb mss connect Pss 42 and 43]

against an unfaithful nation;

rescue me from the deceitful and unjust person.

²For you are the God of my refuge.

Why have you rejected me?

Why must I go about in sorrow

because of the enemy’s oppression?

³Send your light and your truth; let them lead me.[#43:3 Ps 36:9]

Let them bring me to your holy mountain,

to your dwelling place.

⁴Then I will come to the altar of God,

to God, my greatest joy.

I will praise you with the lyre,

God, my God.

⁵Why, my soul, are you so dejected?

Why are you in such turmoil?

Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him,

my Saviour and my God.