Psalms 43:1-5

1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodlya nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceedingb joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

PSALM—NOTE ON Psalms 43:1 In the third stanza of Psalms 42:1, the singer asks God to vindicate him against the ungodly people (Psalms 43:1; see note on 26:1–3) who torment him with their taunts (Psalms 42:3). The stanza closes, like the others, with encouragement.

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