Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
English Revised Version
Psalms 43
1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O 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 because of the oppression of the enemy? 3O 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 my 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 health of my countenance, and my God.
English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.