Psalm 43 – Plea for Help

43 Right me, defend my cause

against a pitiless people.

From the crafty and crooked,

O God, deliver me.

2 For you are God my protector:

why have you cast me off?

Why must I walk so sadly,

so hard pressed by the foe?

3 Send forth your light and your truth,

let them be my guides:

to your holy hill let them bring me,

to the place where you live.

4 Then will I go to God’s altar,

to God my rejoicing;

and with joy on the lyre I will praise you,

O God, my God.

5 Why am I downcast?

Why this moaning within me?

Hope in God;

for yet will I praise him,

my help, my God.