Psalm 43a

 1 Vindicate me, O God,

and plead my cause against an ungodly nation;

rescue me from deceitful and wicked men.

 2 You are God my stronghold.

Why have you rejected me?

Why must I go about mourning,

oppressed by the enemy?

 3 Send forth your light and your truth,

let them guide me;

let them bring me to your holy mountain,

to the place where you dwell.

 4 Then will I go to the altar of God,

to God, my joy and my delight.

I will praise you with the harp,

O God, my God.

 5 Why are you downcast, O my soul?

Why so disturbed within me?

Put your hope in God,

for I will yet praise him,

my Savior and my God.