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?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my inner being daily? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

How long, Jehovah? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger from generation to generation?

Return, O Jehovah! How long? And have compassion on Your servants.

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

Jehovah, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?

when He works on the left hand, I cannot see Him; when He turns to the right hand, I cannot perceive Him.

And I will wait on Jehovah, who hides His face from the house of Jacob; and I will watch for Him.

Truly You are a Mighty God who hides Yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

I will go and return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face. In their affliction they will seek Me earnestly.

The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not given in marriage.

Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest My fury come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

O house of David, thus says Jehovah: Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

in flaming fire giving full vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For our God is a consuming fire.