1
Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungoldly nation;
rescue me from deceitful and wicked men.
2
You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me?
Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
3
Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me;
let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
4
Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight.
5
Why are you downcast? O my soul? Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.