Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?