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43 ¡Hazme justicia, oh Dios!
    Defiende mi causa frente a esta nación impía;
    líbrame de gente mentirosa y perversa.
Tú eres mi Dios y mi fortaleza:
    ¿Por qué me has rechazado?
¿Por qué debo andar de luto
    y oprimido por el enemigo?
Envía tu luz y tu verdad;
    que ellas me guíen a tu monte santo,
    que me lleven al lugar donde tú habitas.
Llegaré entonces al altar de Dios,
    del Dios de mi alegría y mi deleite,
y allí, oh Dios, mi Dios,
    te alabaré al son del arpa.

¿Por qué voy a inquietarme?
    ¿Por qué me voy a angustiar?
En Dios pondré mi esperanza,
    y todavía lo alabaré.
    ¡Él es mi Salvador y mi Dios!

Psalm 43

43 Establish justice for me, God!
    Argue my case against ungodly people!
    Rescue me from the dishonest and unjust!
Because you are my God, my protective fortress!
    Why have you rejected me?
    Why do I have to walk around,
        sad, oppressed by enemies?
Send your light and truth—those will guide me!
    Let them bring me to your holy mountain,
        to your dwelling place.
Let me come to God’s altar—
let me come to God, my joy, my delight—
    then I will give you thanks with the lyre,
    God, my God!

Why, I ask myself, are you so depressed?
    Why are you so upset inside?
    Hope in God!
        Because I will again give him thanks,
        my saving presence and my God.

43 O God, defend me from the charges of these merciless, deceitful men. For you are God, my only place of refuge. Why have you tossed me aside? Why must I mourn at the oppression of my enemies?

Oh, send out your light and your truth—let them lead me. Let them lead me to your Temple on your holy mountain, Zion. There I will go to the altar of God, my exceeding joy, and praise him with my harp. O God—my God! O my soul, why be so gloomy and discouraged? Trust in God! I shall again praise him for his wondrous help; he will make me smile again,[a] for he is my God!

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 43:5 he will make me smile again, literally, “he is the help of my countenance.”