Why do You hide Your face, and reckon me as Your enemy?
If I lift it up high, you hunt me as a lion, and again You would show Yourself marvellous against me.
You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your vexation toward me; changes and a host are with me.
I say to Eloah, ‘Do not declare me wrong, show me why You strive with me.
He has torn in His wrath, and He hates me. He has gnashed at me with His teeth; my adversary sharpens His eyes upon me.
And He kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.
Why do you persecute me like Ěl does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
You have become cruel to me; with the power of Your hand You oppose me.
Who would give me a hearing? See, my signature, let the Almighty answer me, and let my accuser write a bill!
See, He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;
Lamed Why do You stand afar off, O יהוה, hiding in times of distress?
How long would You forget me, O יהוה? Forever? How long would You hide Your face from me?
Why do You hide Your face, Ignoring our affliction and our oppression?
For our being is bowed down to the dust; Our body cleaves to the earth.
יהוה, why do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
And I shall wait on יהוה, who hides His face from the house of Ya‛aqoḇ. And I shall look for Him.
יהוה has been like an enemy. He has swallowed up Yisra’ĕl, He has swallowed up all her palaces, He has destroyed her strongholds. And He increases mourning and lamentation In the daughter of Yehuḏah.
“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.
However, do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Then Shemu’ĕl said, “And why do you ask me, seeing יהוה has turned aside from you and has become your enemy?
