Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
[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?
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?
Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
[A maschil of Asaph.] O God, why have you cast us off forever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
How long, LORD? will you be angry forever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?
Will you be angry with us forever? will you draw out your anger to all generations?
How long, LORD? will you hide yourself forever? shall your anger burn like fire?
But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.
I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, who shall never hold their peace day nor night: you that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence.
Why should you be as a man confused, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; leave us not.