43:1 *Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked. / *In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm.
43:2 You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
43:3 Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
43:4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.
43:5 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.