1 Bring me justice, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation.

2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me?

Why do I go about in mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

3 Oh, send out your light and your truth, let them lead me.

Let them bring me to your holy hill

and to your dwelling.

4 Then I will go to the altar of God,

to God my exceeding joy.

I will praise you with the harp, God, my God.

5 Why are you bowed down, my soul?

Why are you upset within me?

Hope in God, for again I will praise him who is my salvation and my God.