Psalm 43

1. O God, grant me your vindication.
   LORD, plead my cause, defending me
   against a cruel, ungodly nation;
   and from a crooked generation
   that loves deceit and treachery,
   save me and set me free!
   
   
2. You are my stronghold from oppression.
   O why then have you cast me off?
   Why let my foes with their aggression
   cause me such mourning and depression?
   See how they all around me scoff
   and at my sorrows laugh.
   
   
3. Send forth, O God of my salvation,
   your light and truth to be my guide
   and lead me to my destination:
   your holy hill and habitation,
   where I with you will safely hide
   in shelter you provide.
   
   
4. Then, at your sacred altar standing,
   my hands to you in prayer I’ll raise.
   With harp and voice, in worship blending,
   your courts resound; while psalms, ascending
   to you, my highest joy, bring praise
   for all your wondrous ways.
   
   
5. My soul, why are you sad and grieving,
   why so oppressed with anxious care?
   Hope yet in God, his word believing;
   for, light and joy from him receiving,
   I’ll praise his name again and laud
   my Saviour and my God.