²⁰ Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, `And' forsake us so long time?

¹ How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

¹⁹ Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

²⁰ We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

²¹ Do not abhor `us', for thy name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

⁹ Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

¹⁰ Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

¹¹ Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

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

³ Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?

⁴ They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.

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

⁵ Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

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

⁷ Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more?

⁸ Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore?

⁹ Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah

¹⁰ And I said, This is my infirmity; `But I will remember' the years of the right hand of the Most High.

¹ O God, why hast thou cast `us' off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?