| New International Version | NET Bible |
| 1Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked. | 1Vindicate me, O God! Fight for me against an ungodly nation! Deliver me from deceitful and evil men! |
| 2You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy? | 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 me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. | 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 go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, O 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, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and 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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