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.
Updated King James
Psalms 43
1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 2For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 3O send out your light and your truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto your holy hill, and to your tabernacles. 4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise you, O God my God. 5Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
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