Psalms 71:12

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

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

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.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.

“If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can’t find him;

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

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

He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.

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,

My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”

Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

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

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

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

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

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

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

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

I said to Yahweh, “You are my God.” Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.

I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

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,

Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.

For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

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

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!

But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help. Hurry to help me!

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”

Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.

But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.

God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

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

Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.

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.

I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me.

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,