43:1 Vindicate me, God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation;
①Save me from the deceitful and unjust person!
▷ ①Or May You
43:2 For You are the God of my strength; why have You rejected me?
Why do I go about mourning ①because of the oppression of the enemy?
▷ ①Or while the enemy oppresses
43:3 Send out Your light and Your truth, they shall lead me;
They shall bring me to Your holy hill
And to Your dwelling places.
43:4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God ①my exceeding joy;
And I will praise You on the lyre, God, my God.
▷ ①Lit the gladness of my joy
43:5 Why are you ①in despair, my soul?
And why are you restless within me?
Wait for God, for I will ②again praise ③Him
For the ④help of His presence, my God.
▷ ①Or dissolved away ②Or still ③As in some ancient mss; MT Him, the help of my face and my God ④Or saving acts of