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?

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

⁴⁶ How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

³ How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

⁴ Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

²⁰ Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

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

¹² Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.

³ My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?

² But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.

¹⁴ In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.

⁵ Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?

⁴ O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

¹ <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

¹⁷ Lord, how long will you be looking on? take my soul from their destruction, my life from the lions.

¹ <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

² O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

¹⁷ In that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I will be turned away from them, veiling my face from them, and destruction will overtake them, and unnumbered evils and troubles will come on them; so that in that day they will say, Have not these evils come on us because our God is not with us?