My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say, “Spare your people, O Lord, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,
You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.
Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!
“He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”
many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah
It may be that the Lord will look on the wrong done to me, and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing today.”
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