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

¹⁴ But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

⁶ Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, For they are from old times.

¹¹ Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

¹ > Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

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?

¹⁵ Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

²⁵ When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'

²⁶ Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drink in your presence, and you taught in our streets.'

²⁷ He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.'

²⁸ There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrown outside.

³² For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

¹⁷ But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?