[But] you have seen; indeed you have noted trouble and grief to take [it] into your hand. The helpless abandons [himself] upon you; you have been [the] helper [for the] orphan.

On you I was cast from [the] womb. From my mother's belly you [have been] my God.

Do not hide your face from me; do not turn your servant away in anger. You have been my help; do not abandon nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

My tears have been my food day and night, while [they] say to me all day [long], "Where [is] your God?"

All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.

These [things] you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present [an argument] before your eyes.

There {they are very fearful} [where] no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps [against] you. You have put [them] to shame, because God has rejected them.

But as for me, I will sing [of] your strength, and I will hail your loyal love in the morning, because you have been my [high] stronghold and a refuge in my {time} of trouble.

O God, you have rejected us. You have broken us. You have been angry. Restore us!

For you have been my refuge, a strong tower from the enemy.

Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

My tongue also will speak of your righteousness all the day, because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated who seek my harm.

And I have been plagued all day and rebuked {every morning}.

But God [has been] my king from long ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

His den has been in Salem, his lair in Zion.

Then the Lord awoke like [one who had been] asleep, [awoke] like a warrior who had been drunk with wine.

O Lord, you have been our help {in all generations}.

If Yahweh had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in silence.

Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.

This has been mine, that I have kept your precepts.

Unless your law [had been] my delight, then I would have perished in my misery.

"If [it had] not [been] Yahweh who was on our side," do let Israel say,

"If [it had] not [been] Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us,