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

¹ > Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

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

¹ I ask then, Did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

² God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

³¹ For the Lord will not cast off forever.

³² For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

²⁴ Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.

²⁵ I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

²⁶ How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

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

³⁸ But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

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

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

⁹ But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, And don't go out with our armies.

²⁴ Though he stumble, he shall not fall, For Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

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

² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?