<p class="poetry">I will pray<n id="1" /> to God, my high ridge:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Why do you ignore<n id="3" /> me?p> <p class="poetry">Why must I walk around mourning<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">because my enemies oppress me?&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">For you are the God who shelters me.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Why do you reject me?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Why must I walk around<n id="3" /> mourning<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">because my enemies oppress me?p>

<p class="poetry">If I am guilty,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">why then<n id="2" /> weary myself<n id="3" /> in vain?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you hide your face<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and regard me as your enemy?p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Why<n id="2" /> do the nations rebel?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Why<n id="4" /> are the countries<n id="5" /> devising<n id="6" /> plots that will fail?<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why should the nations say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Where is their God?&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you keep on forgetting<n id="1" /> us?p> <p class="poetry">Why do you forsake us so long?p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Moses returned<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>, and said, &#8220;Lord,<n id="3" /> why have you caused trouble for this people?<n id="4" /> Why did you ever<n id="5" /> send me?

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Why did I not<n id="2" /> die<n id="3" /> at birth,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and why did I not expirep> <p class="poetry">as<n id="5" /> I came out of the womb?p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Why does God<n id="2" /> give<n id="3" /> light to one who is in misery,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and life to those<n id="5" /> whose soul is bitter,p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you pursue me like God does?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Will you never be satiated with my flesh?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Moreover, the strength of their<n id="1" /> hands &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">what use was it to me?p> <p class="poetry">Men whose strength<n id="2" /> had perished;p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Why, <sc>Lordsc>, do you stand far off?p> <p class="poetry">Why do you pay no attention during times of trouble?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you look the other way,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and ignore<n id="2" /> the way we are oppressed and mistreated?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why should I be afraid in times of trouble,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when the sinful deeds of deceptive men threaten to overwhelm me?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you remain inactive?p> <p class="poetry">Intervene and destroy him!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why did you break down its walls,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, why do you reject me,p> <p class="poetry">and pay no attention to me?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">If you do not have enough to pay,p> <p class="poetry">your bed<n id="1" /> will be taken<n id="2" /> right out from under you!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Why do you try to refute me?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">All of you have rebelled against me,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>