Prayer to God in Time of Trouble

1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

2For You are the God of my strength: why do You cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

3O send out Your light and Your truth: let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill, and to Your tabernacles.   dwelling places

4Then will I go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise You, O God my God.

5Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.   troubled; presence