1Vindicate me, O God! Fight for me against an ungodly nation. Deliver me from deceitful and evil men. 2For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?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 the God who gives me ecstatic joy, so that I may express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp. 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.