<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>

<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>

<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">Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?p> <p class="poetry">Wake up!<n id="1" /> Do not reject us forever!p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A well-written song<n id="2" /> by Asaph.p> <p class="poetry">Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Why does your anger burn<n id="4" /> against the sheep of your pasture?p>

<p class="poetry">Why should the nations say, &#8220;Where is their God?&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servantsp> <p class="poetry">be avenged among the nations!<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director; according to the tune &#8220;Morning Doe;&#8221;<n id="2" /> a psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry">My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you look with envy,<n id="1" /> O mountains<n id="2" /> with many peaks,p> <p class="poetry">at the mountain where God has decided to live?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed<n id="4" /> the <sc>Lordsc> will live there<n id="5" /> permanently!p>