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The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked.
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Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.
2 You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
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You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
3 Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
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O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.
4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.
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Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.
5 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
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Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
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