Yahweh [is] my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge, my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold.

To you, O Yahweh, I call. O my rock, do not be deaf to me. Or else, if you are silent to me, then I will become like those descending to [the] pit.

Only he [is] my rock and my salvation, my [high] stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.

And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and God Most High their redeemer.

Why hast

How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

My God, my God why have you forsaken me? [Why are you] far from helping me, [far from] the words of my groaning?

Wake up! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Awake! Do not reject forever.

Has God forgotten to have compassion? Or has he closed off his mercies in anger? Selah

{Why} do you say, Jacob, and you speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and my judgment is passed over by my God?"

Can a woman forget her suckling, [refrain] from having compassion on the child of her womb? Indeed, these may forget, but I, I will not forget you!

Why go

I am bowed down; I am bent over greatly. All the day I go about mourning.

because you [are] the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?

My eye languishes from misery. I call on you, O Yahweh, every day; I spread out my hands to you.

Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came.

Because

because of [the] voice [of] an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge [against] me.

I looked again, and I saw all the oppression that occurs under the sun. {I saw the tears of the oppressed-- no one comforts them! Those who oppress them are powerful-- no one can comfort them}!

Remember, O Yahweh, what has become of us; take note, and see our disgrace!

General references

And he said: "Yahweh [is] my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.

I go [about] in mourning garb, [but] not in sunlight; I stand up in the assembly, [and] I cry for help.