²⁰ Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!

¹ To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?

²⁴ Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,

¹⁹ Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.

²⁰ We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.

²¹ Do not despise, for Thy name's sake, Dishonour not the throne of Thine honour, Remember, break not Thy covenant with us.

⁹ Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, Nor for ever remember iniquity, Lo, look attentively, we beseech Thee, Thy people `are' we all.

¹⁰ Thy holy cities have been a wilderness, Zion a wilderness hath been, Jerusalem a desolation.

¹¹ Our holy and our beautiful house, Where praise Thee did our fathers, Hath become burnt with fire, And all our desirable things have become a waste.

¹² For these dost Thou refrain Thyself, Jehovah? Thou art silent, and dost afflict us very sore!'

³ Till when `do' the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult?

⁴ They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.

⁴⁶ Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?

⁵ To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?

⁵ Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.

⁷ To the ages doth the Lord cast off? Doth He add to be pleased no more?

⁸ Hath His kindness ceased for ever? The saying failed to all generations?

⁹ Hath God forgotten `His' favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah.

¹⁰ And I say: `My weakness is, The changes of the right hand of the Most High.'

¹ An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.