To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?

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

A maschil of Asaph. O God, why have you cast us off forever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

Will the Lord cast off forever? and will he be favorable no more?

Has God forgotten to be gracious? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

How long, LORD? will you be angry forever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?

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

How long, LORD? will you hide yourself forever? shall your anger burn like fire?

LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

Be not exceedingly angry, O LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people.

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, break not your covenant with us.