Psalm 43

Common Metre (8,6,8,6)

Suggested Tunes:

(vv.1-2) 33 Belmont, 86 Martyrs

(vv.3-5) 192 Invocation

1    Judge me, O God, and plead my cause

            against th’ ungodly nation;

      From the unjust and crafty man,

            O be thou my salvation.

2    For thou the God art of my strength;

            why thrusts thou me thee fro’?

      For th’ enemy’s oppression

            why do I mourning go?

3    O send thy light forth and thy truth;

            let them be guides to me,

      And bring me to thine holy hill,

            ev’n where thy dwellings be.

4    Then will I to God’s altar go,

            to God my chiefest joy:

      Yea, God, my God, thy name to praise

            my harp I will employ.

5    Why art thou then cast down, my soul?

            what should discourage thee?

      And why with vexing thoughts art thou

            disquieted in me?

      Still trust in God; for him to praise

            good cause I yet shall have:

      He of my count’nance is the health,

            my God that doth me save.