The LORD is my stony rock, and my defense, my Saviour, my God, and my might, in whom I will trust, my buckler, the horn also of my salvation, and my refuge. {TYNDALE: The LORD is my rock, my castle and my deliverer. God is my strength, and in him will I trust: my shield and the horn that defendeth me: mine high hold and refuge.}

{A Psalm of David} Unto thee will I cry, O LORD, my strength; think no scorn of me, lest, if thou make as though thou hearest not, I become like them that go down into the pit.

He only is my strength, my salvation, my defense, so that I shall not greatly fall.

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

Why hast

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

{To the Chanter, upon Aijeleth of the dawning, a Psalm of David} My God, my God: why hast thou forsaken me, and art so far from my health and from the words of my complaint?

Arise, LORD! Why sleepest thou? Awake, and be not absent from us forever.

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Or, hath he shut up his loving-kindness in displeasure? Selah.

"How may then Jacob think, or how may Israel say, 'My ways are hid from the LORD, and my God knoweth not of my judgments.'

Doth a wife forget the child of her womb, and the son who she hath born? And though she do forget, yet will not I forget thee.

Why go

I am brought into so great trouble and misery, that I go mourning all the day long.

For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou put me from thee? And why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?

My sight faileth for very trouble: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched forth my hands unto thee.

Yet nevertheless, whereas I looked for good, evil happened unto me; and whereas I waited for light, there came darkness.

Because

The enemy crieth so, and the ungodly cometh on so fast: for they are minded to do me some mischief, so maliciously are they set against me.

So I turned me, and considered all the violent wrong that is done under the Sun, and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed; and there was no man to comfort them or that would deliver and defend them from the violence of their oppressors.

{The Prayer of Jeremiah} Call to remembrance, O LORD, what we have suffered; consider and see our confusion.

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

Meekly and lowly came I in, yea and without any displeasure; I stood up in the congregation, and communed with them.