Why, Lord, do you stand afar and pay no heed in times of trouble?
For the leader; according to “The deer of the dawn.” A psalm of David.
Do not hide your face from me; do not repel your servant in anger. You are my salvation; do not cast me off; do not forsake me, God my savior!
Hope of Israel, Lord, our savior in time of need! Why should you be a stranger in the land, like a traveler stopping only for a night?
But I cry out to you, Lord; in the morning my prayer comes before you.
For the leader. A song of the Korahites. According to alamoth.
Awake! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Rise up! Do not reject us forever!
Complacent, I once said, “I shall never be shaken.”
Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?
If he is silent, who then can condemn? If he hides his face, who then can behold him, whether nation or individual?
The north enfolds him, and I cannot catch sight of him; The south hides him, and I cannot see him.
Why do you hide your face; why forget our pain and misery?
Why are you like someone bewildered, a champion who cannot save? You are in our midst, Lord, your name we bear: do not forsake us!