How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save?
“Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one Israel praises.
How long, Lord, will the wicked, how long will the wicked be jubilant?
Why are you like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? You are among us, Lord, and we bear your name; do not forsake us!
Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Then the angel of the Lord said, “Lord Almighty, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?”
They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?”