Psalms 43 YLT
Summary: Widely read as the concluding third stanza of Psalm 42 (it lacks its own heading and shares its refrain), Psalm 43 pleads for God to "vindicate me" against an "ungodly" and "deceitful" nation (v. 1) and to act as advocate in what reads like a legal dispute. Its central request asks for guided pilgrimage back to worship, "send out your light and your truth; let them lead me... to your dwelling!" (v. 3), envisioning renewed access to the altar and the joy of praise with the lyre. It closes with the same self-address as Psalm 42, urging the downcast soul to hope in God (v. 5).
1Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,
2For thou art the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?
3Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They--they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.
4And I go in unto the altar of God, Unto God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank Thee with a harp, O God, my God.
5What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!
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