²⁰ Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?

¹ > How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

²⁴ Why do you hide your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?

¹⁹ Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck 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, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

²¹ Do not abhor [us], for your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, don't break your covenant with us.

⁹ Don't be angry very sore, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.

¹⁰ Your 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 you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

¹² Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?

³ Yahweh, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph?

⁴ They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast.

⁴⁶ How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

⁵ Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

⁵ How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

⁷ "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

⁸ Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.

¹⁰ Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: The years of the right hand of the Most High."

¹ > God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?