Judge me, O God

1 Psalm of David.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause

against an ungodly nation:

O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

2 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 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 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 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.