My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me.
My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, ‘Where [is] thy God?’
Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.
O Jehovah, God of my salvation, Daily I have cried, nightly before Thee,
Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.
Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.
And having left them, having gone away again, he prayed a third time, saying the same word;
and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night — bearing long in regard to them?
And it came to pass in those days, he went forth to the mountain to pray, and was passing the night in the prayer of God,
night and day exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and perfect the things lacking in your faith.
I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,