Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus unto this land? what does the heat of this great anger mean?

And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelled on the other side of Jordan!

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?

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

Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck its fruit?

The foolishness of man perverts his way: and his heart frets against the LORD.

O LORD, why have you made us to err from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?