Why do You stand afar off, O Jehovah? Will You hide in times of distress?

He has said in his heart, the Mighty God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see it!

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] i0 par How long will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

Judge for me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

O send out Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill, and to Your tabernacle.

And He said, I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

Why do You hide Your face, and regard me as Your enemy?

O do not deliver the soul of Your turtle dove to the beasts; forget not the community of Your lowly forever.

Forget not the voice of Your enemies; the roar of those who rise up against You continually increases.

And it came to pass after many days that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from Jehovah and my judgment is passed over by God?

Have you not known? Have you not heard, that the eternal God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not grow faint nor weary? His understanding is unsearchable.

And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the Word of God and because of the testimony which they held.

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?