Psalm 43

1. O judge me, God of my salvation, / Plead Thou my cause, defending me / Against a cruel, ungodly nation; / From a deceitful generation / O save Thou me and set me free, / That I may honor Thee.

2. Thou art my stronghold from oppression, / O why then hast Thou cast me off? / Why let my foes with their aggression / Cause me such mourning and depression? / See how they gather round to scoff / And at my woes to laugh.

3. Send forth, O LORD of my salvation, / Thy light and truth to be my guide; / O let their rays, in my privation, / Lead me unto Thy habitation, / Where ‘neath Thy wing I’ll be supplied / With grace Thou wilt provide.

4. Then, at Thy sacred altar bending, / My heart to God in prayer I’ll raise. / With harp and voice, in worship blending, / Thy courts resound; while Psalms, ascending / To God my highest joy, bring praise / For all His wondrous ways.

5. My soul, why are you sad and grieving, / Why so oppressed with anxious care? / Hope yet in God, His Word believing; / For, light and joy from Him receiving, / I’ll praise His Name again and laud / My Helper and my God.
William Kuipers, 1931, et alv