Why, Adonai, are You standing far off? Why hide Yourself in times of trouble?
For the music director, on “The Doe of the Dawn,” a psalm of David.
Do not hide Your face from me. Do not turn Your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Do not abandon me or forsake me, O God my salvation.
O hope of Israel, Savior in time of trouble, why are You like a stranger in the land, or like a traveler who stays for a night?
But I—I cried out to You, Adonai, and in the morning my prayer meets You.
For the music director, of the sons of Korah, according to Alamoth, a song.
Awake! Why do you sleep, my Lord? Wake up! Do not cast us off forever.
When I felt secure, I said: “I will never be shaken.”
Why do You hide Your face and consider me Your enemy?
“But if He is quiet, who can condemn Him? If He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He is over a nation and an individual alike,
When He is in the north, I cannot perceive Him; When He turns south, I do not see Him.
Why do You hide Your face and forget our misery and oppression?
Why are You like a man overcome, like a champion who cannot save? Yet you, Adonai, are in our midst, and we are called by Your Name. Do not forsake us!