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 holdest me for thine enemy?

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

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.

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

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

¹² Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor.

³ My soul also is sore troubled: And thou, O Jehovah, how long?

² but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, so that he will not hear.

¹⁴ Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

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

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

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

¹⁷ Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, My darling from the lions.

¹ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? `Why art thou so' far from helping me, `and from' the words of my groaning?

² O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.

¹⁷ Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?