>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/ps/43?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#0772b::c0772b) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/psalms/43.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Psalms/43.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/psa/43/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>This psalm, likely written by David or a similar figure, is a personal plea to God for help and guidance amidst persecution, directed towards an audience in need of encouragement and faith. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>The writer is feeling sad and asks God to help them and show them the right way. They want to be happy and praise God with music. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>The psalmist is in distress, seeking God's judgment and deliverance from deceitful people. They express a desire for God's guidance through light and truth, asking to be brought to a place of worship where they can praise God joyfully. Despite their sorrow, they remind themselves to hope in God, who is their source of joy and strength. > >#Gospel/Faith #Gospel/Deliverance #Gospel/Hope ###### 1 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. ###### 2 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? ###### 3 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. ###### 4 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. ###### 5 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.