Psalms 43
The psalmist asks God to defend and vindicate them against ungodly people and deliver them from deceit and injustice. Despite feeling rejected and oppressed, the psalmist seeks God's guidance and refuge, asking for light and truth to lead them to God's presence. The psalmist expresses a desire to worship and praise God with joy, and ultimately encourages their own soul to hope in God for salvation.
1Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!2For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?3Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling!4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.5Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
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