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43 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation.
    Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me?
    Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Oh, send out your light and your truth.
    Let them lead me.
    Let them bring me to your holy hill,
    to your tents.
Then I will go to the altar of God,
    to God, my exceeding joy.
I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
Why are you in despair, my soul?
    Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God!
    For I shall still praise him:
    my Savior, my helper, and my God.

Prayer for deliverance.

43 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:
Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou cast me off?
Why go I mourning [a]because of the oppression of the enemy?
Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me:
Let them bring me unto thy holy hill,
And to thy tabernacles.
Then will I go unto the altar of God,
Unto God [b]my exceeding joy;
And upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
And why art thou disquieted within me?
Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him,
Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 43:2 Or, while the enemy oppresseth
  2. Psalm 43:4 Hebrew the gladness of my joy.