And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore have You thus judged me?

Oh that I were as in months past, in the days when God preserved me!

As when His lamp shone over my head; when by His light I walked through darkness.

and said, I will turn away My face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.

Why do You stand afar off, O Lord? [Why] do You overlook [us] in times of need, in affliction?

For the end, A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord, will You forget me? Forever? How long will You turn away Your face from me?

Why do You turn Your face away, [and] forget our poverty and our affliction?

And I meditated; I communed with my heart by night, and diligently searched my spirit, [saying],

Will He cut off His mercy forever, even forever and ever?

Why, O Lord, do You reject my prayer, [and] turn Your face away from me?

And [one] shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away His face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in Him.

[ 16:10] In His anger He has cast me down; He has gnashed His teeth upon me: the weapons of His robbers have fallen upon me.

And He has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy.

They attacked me also without mercy: You have scourged me with a strong hand.

(Oh that I had a hearer!) And if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and as to the written charge which I had against anyone,

Yet He has discovered a charge against me, and He has reckoned me as an adversary.

And Samuel said, Why do you ask me, seeing the Lord has departed from you, and taken part with your neighbor?

HE. The Lord has become as an enemy; He has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, He has overwhelmed her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Judah.

Yet do not consider him as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a brother.