Psalms 43

A Prayer for Rescue

¹Judge me, O God, and plead my case

against an unfaithful nation.

From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me,

²because you are the God of my refuge.

Why have you rejected me?

Why must I go about mourning

because of the oppression of the enemy?

³Send your light and your truth;

they shall lead me.

They shall bring me to your holy mountain

and to your dwelling places.

⁴Then I will go to the altar of God,[#Or “And”]

to God, my surpassing joy,

and I will praise you with lyre,

O God, my God.

⁵Why are you in despair, O my soul?[#Literally “bowed down”]

And why are you disturbed within me?

Hope in God, because I will again praise him,

my salvation and my God.