1Prayer for deliverance.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.2For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou cast me off?Why go I mourning 1because of the oppression of the enemy?3Oh 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 2my exceeding joy;And 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 thou in God; for I shall yet praise him,Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.