Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?
He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.
The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
O Lord, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me?
Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?
Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy,
And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
I said, “Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.” Then my spirit made a diligent search: “Will the Lord spurn forever, and never again be favorable? Has his steadfast love forever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time? Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah
Why, O Lord, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me.
“Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me, when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
And Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy?
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