Psalms 88:14

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

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,

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.

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

Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.

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.

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

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.

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

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

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

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

Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies.

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.

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.

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

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

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

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?

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

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.

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

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

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

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.

At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

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,

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

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

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

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

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

Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’ ” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.

He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

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?”

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

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

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.

Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?

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?

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”