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?
Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?
O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.
Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days?
How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?
To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.
My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long?
Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?
How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions!
A Maskil of Asaph. O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.
Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger to all generations?
but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’
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