Old Testament
Psalms 43
Overview
A short lament that completes the prayer begun in Psalm 42, this psalm cries out for God to vindicate the psalmist against an ungodly nation and a deceitful, unjust man. The longing crystallizes into a single goal: to be led by God's light and truth back to his holy hill and altar, to God his "exceeding joy." It ends with the same refrain, again preaching hope to the downcast soul.
1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
2For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
3Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.
4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
5Why 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.