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

[A Psalm of David.] Unto you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved.

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

Why hast

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?

[To the Chief Musician upon aijeleth shahar. A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off forever.

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

Why say you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is passed over by my God?

Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget you.

Why go

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

For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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

When I looked for 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 oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

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

I went mourning but not in the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.