Psalms 43

God's Light and Truth Lead the Downcast Soul Back to Worship

Psalm 43 moves from a plea for divine vindication, through complaint over felt rejection and enemy oppression, into a request for God's light and truth to lead the worshiper back to the altar, and closes by commanding the downcast soul to hope in God.

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1 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

3 Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

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