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For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

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

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

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

that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

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

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

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?

He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity.

It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.

Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

It won’t be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.

It won’t be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.

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.

“ ‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves will dwell there. The ostriches will dwell therein; and it will be inhabited no more forever; neither will it be lived in from generation to generation.

I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

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

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.