The LORD is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent unto me lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like those that go down into the grave.

He only is my rock and my saving health; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

And they remembered that God was their rock and the high God their redeemer.

Why hast

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

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me and from the words of my cry?

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, do not cast us off for ever.

Has God forgotten to have mercy? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

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

Can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even though they may forget, I will not forget thee.

Why go

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

For thou art the God of my strength; why dost thou cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

My eye mourns by reason of affliction; LORD, I have called daily upon thee; I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

When I expected good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Because

because of the voice of the enemy because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

So I returned and considered all the violence that is done under the sun and behold the tears of such as are oppressed, and they have no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but the oppressed had no comforter.

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; look, and behold our reproach.

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And he said, The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.

I went about darkened, but not by the sun; I stood up and cried out in the congregation.