Psalms 13:1-3

Psalm 13

For the music director; a psalm of David.

13:1 How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me?

How long will you pay no attention to me?

13:2 How long must I worry,

and suffer in broad daylight?

How long will my enemy gloat over me?

13:3 Look at me! Answer me, O Lord my God!

Revive me, or else I will die!

Psalms 27:9

27:9 Do not reject me!

Do not push your servant away in anger!

You are my deliverer!

Do not forsake or abandon me,

O God who vindicates me!

Psalms 30:7

30:7 O Lord, in your good favor you made me secure.

Then you rejected me and I was terrified.

Psalms 44:24

44:24 Why do you look the other way,

and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?

Psalms 88:14

88:14 O Lord, why do you reject me,

and pay no attention to me?

Job 13:24

13:24 Why do you hide your face

and regard me as your enemy?

Job 23:9

23:9 In the north when he is at work,

I do not see him;

when he turns to the south,

I see no trace of him.

Job 34:29

34:29 But if God is quiet, who can condemn him?

If he hides his face, then who can see him?

Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,