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

⁵ How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?

⁶³ Their young men were burned in the fire; and their virgins were not praised in the bride-song.

²⁹ For our God is an all-burning fire.

⁸ To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:

¹⁵ I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.

¹² O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

⁴ Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

¹⁵ Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!

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.

¹³ Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed.

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

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

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

⁹ I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.

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?

² How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?