Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?
Till when do I set counsels in my soul? Sorrow inn my heart daily? Till when is mine enemy exalted over me?
With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where `is' thy God?'
Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.
Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.
To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?
Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?
And Zion saith, `Jehovah hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me.'
`On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, All the day, and all the night, Continually, they are not silent.' O ye remembrancers of Jehovah, Keep not silence for yourselves,
Why art Thou as one dumb? As a mighty one not able to save? And Thou `art' in our midst, O Jehovah, And Thy name over us is called, leave us not.