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

²⁴ Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?

⁹ When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

¹⁰ They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

²⁷ Why say you, Jacob, and speak, Israel, My way is hid from Yahweh, and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?

²⁸ Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.

²³ Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

¹⁹ Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don't forget the life of your poor forever.

¹ Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

² For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

³ Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.

⁴ Then I will go to the altar of God, To God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

⁹ I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

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

¹¹ He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

¹ Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

²⁰ He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.

²³ It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

²⁴ God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.