¹² Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

¹⁴ I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: `now' will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.

¹⁰ How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

¹¹ Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? `Pluck it' out of thy bosom `and' consume `them'.

¹² Then the angel of Jehovah answered and said, O Jehovah of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

¹ O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.

¹⁹ Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever.

¹⁰ and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

⁴⁶ How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? `How long' shall thy wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷ Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

⁴⁸ What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

⁴⁹ Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?

⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom `the reproach of' all the mighty peoples,

⁵¹ Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

³ Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁴ O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

⁵ How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

¹ Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?