1JUDGE me, O God, and avenge my cause against a merciless people; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

2For thou art the God of my strength; why has thou forsaken me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

3O send out thy light and thy truth; let them comfort me; let them bring me unto thy holy mountain and to thy tabernacle.

4Then will I go before the altar of God, to God who makes me joyful with the joy of youth; yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.

5Why are you disturbed, O my soul? and why are you sad within me? Hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the Saviour of my honor and my God.