| NET Bible | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Vindicate me, O God! Fight for me against an ungodly nation! Deliver me from deceitful and evil men! | 1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust 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? | 2For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression? |
| 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. | 3Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell. |
| 4Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp. | 4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God. |
| 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. | 5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God. |
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