A Prayer For Rescue
1 Vindicate me, O God! Fight for me against an ungodly nation! Deliver me from deceitful and evil men!
1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
1 (A)Vindicate me, O God, and (B)plead my case against an ungodly nation;(a)O deliver me from (C)the deceitful and unjust man!
1 Vindicate me, God, and defend my causeagainst an ungodly nation;rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man.(A)
1 You be my judge, God, and plead my case against an unholy nation; rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man.
2 For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?
2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
2 For You are the (D)God of my strength; why have You (E)rejected me?Why do I go (F)mourning (b)because of the oppression of the enemy?
2 For You are the God of my refuge.Why have You rejected me?Why must I go about in sorrowbecause of the enemy’s oppression?(B)
2 Since you are the God who strengthens me, why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?"
3 Reveal 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.
3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
3 O send out Your (G)light and Your truth, let them lead me;Let them bring me to Your (H)holy hillAnd to Your (I)dwelling places.
3 Send Your light and Your truth; let them lead me.(C)Let them bring me to Your holy mountain,to Your dwelling place.(D)
3 Send forth your light and your truth so they may guide me. Let them bring me to your holy mountain and to your dwelling places.
4 Then 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.
4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
4 Then I will go to (J)the altar of God,To God (c)my exceeding (K)joy;And upon the (L)lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.
4 Then I will come to the altar of God,to God, my greatest joy.(E)I will praise You with the lyre,God, my God.(F)
4 Then 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,
5 Why 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.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
5 (M)Why are you (d)in despair, O my soul?And why are you disturbed within me?(e)Hope in God, for I shall (f)again praise Him,The (g)help of my countenance and my God.
5 Why am I so depressed?Why this turmoil within me?Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,my Savior and my God.(G)
5 Why 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. To the Director: An instruction of the Sons of Korah.