Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself awesome against me.
You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation upon me; changes and war are ever with me.
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me.
He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.
He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him as one of his enemies.
Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
You have become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me.
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.
Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy,
Why stand you afar off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble?
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?
Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our body cleaves unto the earth.
LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
The Lord was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faith.
Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Then said Samuel, Why then do you ask of me, seeing the LORD has departed from you, and has become your enemy?
