Psalm 43 (NIV)
1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; rescue me from deceitful and wicked men.
2You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
3Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
4Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.
5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Prayer
Soul of Christ, sanctify me,
body of Christ, save me,
blood of Christ, cleanse me,
Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
O good Jesus, hear me:
hide me within your wounds
and never let me be separated from you.
From the wicked enemy defend me,
in the hour of my death, call me
and bid me come to you,
so that with your saints I may praise you
for ever and ever.
In your name I pray. Amen.