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

Therefore shall every holy one pray to You in a fit time; only in the deluge of many waters they shall not come near to Him.

You are my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause.

For the end, for the sons of Korah; A Psalm concerning secret things. God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us.

And call upon Me in the day of affliction; and I shall deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. Pause.

In the day of my affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; [even] with my hands by night before Him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted.

He shall call upon Me, and I will hearken to him; I am with him in affliction; and I will deliver him, and glorify him.

Though I should walk in the midst of affliction, You will revive me; You have stretched forth Your hands against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand has saved me.

Since I called, and you did not hear, and I spoke at length, and you gave no heed;

therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; and I will rejoice against you when ruin comes upon you:

For it shall be that when you call upon me, I will not listen to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find me.

Lord, in affliction I remembered You; Your chastening was to us with small affliction.

They said to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have begotten me; and they have turned [their] backs to Me, and not their faces. Yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us.

And where are your gods which you have made for yourself? Will they arise and save [you] in the time of your affliction? For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal.

For the end. Destroy not; by David, for a memorial, when he fled from the presence of Saul, to the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for my soul has trusted in You; and in the shadow of Your wings will I hope, until the iniquity has passed away.

Against Your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against Your saints.

You are my helper and my supporter; I have hoped in Your words.

The name of the Lord is of great strength; and the righteous running to it are exalted.

And He shall come, and it shall be with regard to every place in Mount Zion, yea, all the region round about it shall a cloud overshadow by day, and [there shall be] as it were the smoke and light of fire burning by night; and upon all the glory shall be a defense.

And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding place from inclemency [of weather] and from rain.

Go, my people, enter into your closets, shut your door, hide yourself for a little season, until the anger of the Lord has passed away.

And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall appear in Zion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [you] who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.

You will hide them in the secret of Your presence from the vexation of man; You will screen them in a tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven.

And he was hidden with them in the house of God for six years; and Athaliah reigned over the land.

And I came into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the Son of Mehetabel, and he was shut up; and he said, Let us assemble together in the house of God, in the midst of it, and let us shut the doors of it; for they are coming by night to slay you.

And I said, Who is the man that shall enter into the house, that he may live?

who strengthens my feet as hare's feet, and sets me upon high places.

And He brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.

From the ends of the earth have I cried to You, when my heart was in trouble; You lifted me up on a rock; You guided me;

yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in God my Savior.

The Lord God is my strength, and He will perfectly strengthen my feet; He mounts me upon high places, that I may conquer by His song.

"Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them, I will compare him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock:

and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and fell against that house; and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.

And Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I shall build My church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.