1aVindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked.

2You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?

3Send 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.

4Then 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.

5Why, 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.