1 Vindicate me, O God!Fight for me against an ungodly nation.Deliver me from deceitful and evil men.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?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.4 Then 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.5 Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God!For I will again give thanksto my God for his saving intervention.