^{1 Ref} Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

^{2 Ref} For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

^{3 Ref} Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.

^{4 Ref} Then I will go to the altar of God, To God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

^{5 Ref} Why 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.

^{1 Ref} Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,

^{2 Ref} For thou `art' the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?

^{3 Ref} Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They -- they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.

^{4 Ref} And I go in unto the altar of God, Unto God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank Thee with a harp, O God, my God.

^{5 Ref} What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!

^{1 Ref} Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

^{2 Ref} For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

^{3 Ref} O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

^{4 Ref} Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

^{5 Ref} Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.