PSALM 43

    ¹Grant me justice, O God,

          take up my case against a faithless nation,

              from a man of deceit and wrong free me.

    ²For You, O God, my stronghold,

          why should You neglect me?

              Why should I go in gloom, pressed by the foe?

    ³Send forth Your light and Your truth.

          It is they that will guide me.

    They will bring me to Your holy mountain

          And to Your dwelling place.

    ⁴And let me come to God’s altar,

          to God, my keenest joy.

    And let me acclaim You with the lyre,

          O God, my God.

    ⁵How bent, my being, how you moan for me!

          Hope in God, for yet will I acclaim Him,

              His rescuing presence and my God.