Psalm 43: Send Out Thy Light and Thy Truth
A brief cry for vindication that ends in renewed hope in God.
Psalm 43 continues the plea begun in Psalms 42, asking God to judge the psalmist's cause against a deceitful and unjust foe. Verse 3 asks God to send out His light and truth to guide the writer back to His holy hill and tabernacle.
Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,
For thou `art' the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?
Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They -- they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.
And I go in unto the altar of God, Unto God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank Thee with a harp, O God, my God.
What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!