XLIII. aJudge me, O God, and bplead my cause against an * ungodly nation:

O deliver me * from the deceitful and unjust man.

2  For thou art cthe God of my strength: why dost thou dcast me off?

eWhy 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 fthy holy hill, and to ffthy tabernacles.

4  Then will I go unto the altar of God,

Unto God * my exceeding joy:

Yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

5  gWhy 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.