Psalms 13:1

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.

Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

“You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?” ’

You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.

Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”

In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”