²⁰ I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.

⁷ Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

⁹ His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?

² My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me.

⁴ Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.

⁵ Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.

⁸ Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

⁴⁴ Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.

²³ And he did not answer her a word; and his disciples having come to him, were asking him, saying -- `Let her away, because she crieth after us;'