(43) A Psalm of David.
1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man.
2For you, O God, are my strength: therefore have you cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?
3Send forth your light and your truth: they have led me, and brought me to your holy mountain, and to your tabernacles.
4And I will go in to the altar of God, to God who gladdens my youth: I will give thanks to you on the harp, O God, my God.
5Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Text: the Septuagint in the translation of Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton (1851), revised in American English by Michael Paul Johnson (LXX2012). Public domain. The Old Testament of the Eastern Orthodox Bible is in preparation.
