Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and distress?

Arise for our help, and redeem us through Your mercy!

Oh, do not remember our former iniquities against us! Let Your tender mercies come speedily to meet us, for we have been brought very low.

Jehovah protects the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me.

Who remembered us in our lowly state, for His mercy is eternal;

For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit wastes away! Do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the pit.

i1 [A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.]i0 par O Jehovah, how my adversaries have increased! Many are they who rise up against me.

But my enemies are active; they are strong; and those who hate me wrongfully have multiplied.

He will send from Heaven, and deliver me from the reproaches of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God will send forth His mercy and His truth.

My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men who are on fire, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog? After a flea?

Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

Yet in all these things we more than conquer through Him who loves us.