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Psalm 43.
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The psalmist asks for vindication and guidance back to worship. The refrain calls the downcast soul to hope in God despite present discouragement.
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- 1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- 2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- 3O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
- 4Then 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.
- 5Why 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.
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