Why do You stand afar off, O LORD? [Why] do You hide in times of trouble?

[This] You have seen, O LORD; Do not keep silence. O Lord, do not be far from me.

The LORD [is] far from the wicked, But He hears the prayer of the righteous.

But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden [His] face from you, So that He will not hear.

Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them to the last man. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!

"[This shall be] a continual burnt offering throughout your generations [at] the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with you.

"And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and [the tabernacle] shall be sanctified by My glory.

"But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find [Him] if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, "[It is] because of Saul and [his] bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites."

[When You said,] "Seek My face," My heart said to You, "Your face, LORD, I will seek."

Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near.

Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.

" Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

"For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.

Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.