| International Standard Version | NET Bible |
| 1 You be my judge, God, and plead my case against an unholy nation; rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man. | 1Vindicate me, O God! Fight for me against an ungodly nation! Deliver me from deceitful and evil men! |
| 2Since you are the God who strengthens me, why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?" | 2For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me? |
| 3Send forth your light and your truth so they may guide me. Let them bring me to your holy mountain and to your dwelling places. | 3Reveal your light and your faithfulness! They will lead me, they will escort me back to your holy hill, and to the place where you live. |
| 4Then I will approach the altar of God, even to God in whom my joy finds its source. Then I will praise you with the lyre, God, my God, | 4Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp. |
| 5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will praise him once again, since his presence saves me and he is my God. | 5Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention. |
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