Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God. 043:001 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men. 043:002 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 043:003 Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents. 043:004 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God. 043:005 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God. 044:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm.>> We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old. 044:002 You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad. 044:003 For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them. 044:004 You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob! 044:005 Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us. 044:006 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. 044:007 But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us. 044:008 In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah. 044:009 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't go out with our armies. 044:010 You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves. 044:011 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations. 044:012 You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale. 044:013 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us. 044:014 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. 044:015 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face, 044:016 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger. 044:017 All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant. 044:018 Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path, 044:019 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.