¹⁴ Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul? Thou hidest Thy face from me.

²⁴ Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

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?

² For thou `art' the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?

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

⁹ In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.

¹⁷ And hide not Thy face from Thy servant, For I am in distress -- haste, answer me.

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.

⁴⁶ and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, `Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, `My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?'