²⁴ Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

¹¹ His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

⁵ The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

¹⁷ And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.

¹⁴ Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

²⁴ Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

¹⁰ See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

²⁰ And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.

¹⁵ Have no feeling of hate for him, but take him in hand seriously as a brother.

⁶ The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.

⁷ Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?

⁸ Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing?

⁹ Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

¹ Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?

³⁵ If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

²¹ You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.

² If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

³ When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

⁹ I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

² I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.

¹⁶ And Samuel said, Why do you put your questions to me, seeing that God has gone away from you and is on the side of him who is against you?