I will pray to God, my high ridge: “Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”

For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?

Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail?

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you pay no attention during times of trouble?

Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?

Why should I be afraid in times of trouble, when the sinful deeds of deceptive men threaten to overwhelm me?

Why do you remain inactive? Intervene and destroy him!

Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?

O Lord, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?

Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever!

A well-written song by Asaph. Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants be avenged among the nations!

For the music director; according to the tune “Morning Doe;” a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.

Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks, at the mountain where God has decided to live? Indeed the Lord will live there permanently!