Psalm 43

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Psalm 43

Prayer to God in Time of Trouble

¹Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause
    against an ungodly people;
from those who are deceitful and unjust
    deliver me!
²For you are the God in whom I take refuge;
    why have you cast me off?
Why must I walk about mournfully
    because of the oppression of the enemy?

³O send 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 harp,
    O God, my God.

⁵Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

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