1 Vindicate me, my God,and plead my causeagainst an unfaithful nation.Rescue me from those who aredeceitful and wicked.
2 You are God my stronghold.Why have you rejected me?Why must I go about mourning,oppressed by the enemy?
3 Send 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.
4 Then 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.
5 Why, my soul, are you downcast?Why so disturbed within me?Put your hope in God,for I will yet praise him,my Saviour and my God.