Psalm 22:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night but find no rest.

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And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”

O Lord, God of my salvation, at night, when I cry out before you,

I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.

Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and restore whatever is lacking in your faith.

Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.

So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words.

you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;

O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?