By day may the Lord send his mercy, and by night may his righteousness be with me! I will pray to the God of my life,
For the leader. A psalm of David.
He said: I love you, Lord, my strength,
Of David. To you, Lord, I call; my Rock, do not be deaf to me, Do not be silent toward me, so that I join those who go down to the pit.
Foul and festering are my sores because of my folly.
You, O God, are my strength. Why then do you spurn me? Why must I go about mourning, with the enemy oppressing me?
hear me and give answer. I rock with grief; I groan
My soul rests in God alone, from whom comes my salvation.
Has God’s mercy ceased forever? The promise to go unfulfilled for future ages?
They remembered that God was their rock, God Most High, their redeemer.
Because of you my acquaintances shun me; you make me loathsome to them; Caged in, I cannot escape;
To proclaim your love at daybreak, your faithfulness in the night,
Again I saw all the oppressions that take place under the sun: the tears of the victims with none to comfort them! From the hand of their oppressors comes violence, and there is none to comfort them!
Why, O Jacob, do you say, and declare, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”?
Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.