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Psalm 43

Send Out Your Light

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The writer asks God to send His light and truth to guide him, like a lamp lighting up a dark path. He wants to be led back to God's holy mountain where he can praise and worship. Three times he tells himself: 'Put your hope in God!'

  1. 1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
  2. 2For You are God, my stronghold. Why have You rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
  3. 3Send forth Your light and Your truth; let them guide me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, to the place where You dwell.
  4. 4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and delight. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.
  5. 5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Scripture from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB)