Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto God.
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
Even today is my complaint bitter: my hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance of you.
Verily you are a God that hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for your name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter into it, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: