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

⁷ and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night -- bearing long in regard to them?

¹ A Song, a Psalm, by sons of Korah, to the Overseer, `Concerning the Sickness of Afflictions.' -- An instruction, by Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah, God of my salvation, Daily I have cried, nightly before Thee,

³ My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where `is' thy God?'

³ I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,

¹⁰ night and day exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and perfect the things lacking in your faith.

⁴¹ And he was withdrawn from them, as it were a stone's cast, and having fallen on the knees he was praying,

⁴² saying, `Father, if Thou be counselling to make this cup pass from me --; but, not my will, but Thine be done.' --

⁴³ And there appeared to him a messenger from heaven strengthening him;

⁴⁴ and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.

⁴⁵ And having risen up from the prayer, having come unto the disciples, he found them sleeping from the sorrow,

⁴⁶ and he said to them, `Why do ye sleep? having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.'

¹² And it came to pass in those days, he went forth to the mountain to pray, and was passing the night in the prayer of God,

⁴⁴ And having left them, having gone away again, he prayed a third time, saying the same word;

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

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

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

¹⁶ I -- to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me.

¹⁷ Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He heareth my voice,