1Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people;
from deceitful and unjust men deliver me!
2For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you cast me off?
Why go I 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 and to your dwelling!
4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy;
and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.
5Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.