Why do You hide Your face, Ignoring our affliction and our oppression?
Why do You hide Your face, and reckon me as Your enemy?
Why do You stand afar off, O יהוה, hiding in times of distress?
He has said in his heart, “Ě
How long would You forget me, O יהוה ? Forever? How long would You hide Your face from me?
Stir up Yourself and awake to my right-ruling – To my cause, my Elohim and my Master.
I say to Ě
Do not give the being of Your turtledove to the wild beast! Do not forget the life of Your afflicted ones forever.
Do not forget the voice of Your enemies, The uproar of those rising up against You increases continually.
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of יהוה! Awake as in days of old, everlasting generations. Was it not You who cut Rahaḇ
“And He said, ‘Let Me hide My face from them, Let Me see what their end is, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom there is no trusting.