<p class="poetry">where then<n id="1" /> is my hope?p> <p class="poetry">And my hope,<n id="2" /> who sees it?p>

<p class="poetry">The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">People<n id="1" /> who had seen him will not see him again,p> <p class="poetry">and the place where he wasp> <p class="poetry">will recognize him no longer.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;For God speaks, the first time in one way,p> <p class="poetry">the second time in another,p> <p class="poetry">though a person does not perceive<n id="1" /> it.p>

<p class="poetry">Gaze at the heavens and see;p> <p class="poetry">consider the clouds, which are higher than you!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Surely it is an empty cry<n id="1" /> &#8211; God does not hear it;p> <p class="poetry">the Almighty does not take notice of it.p>

<p class="poetry">And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight,p> <p class="poetry">thinking,<n id="1" /> &#8216;No eye can see me,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and covers his face with a mask.p>

<p class="poetry">That person sings<n id="1" /> to others,<n id="2" /> saying:p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;I have sinned and falsified what is right,p> <p class="poetry">but I was not punished according to what I deserved.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">How much less, then,p> <p class="poetry">when you say that you do not perceive him,p> <p class="poetry">that the case is before himp> <p class="poetry">and you are waiting for him!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">But if God<n id="1" /> is quiet, who can condemn<n id="2" /> him?p> <p class="poetry">If he hides his face, then who can see him?p> <p class="poetry">Yet<n id="3" /> he is over the individual and the nation alike,<n id="4" />p>