Why do the nations rebel
and the peoples plot in vain?

Lord, why do You stand so far away?
Why do You hide in times of trouble?

Why has the wicked person despised God?
He says to himself, “You will not demand an account.”

For the choir director: according to “The Deer of the Dawn.” A Davidic psalm.My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
Why are You so far from my deliverance
and from my words of groaning?

Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.

I will say to God, my rock,
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?”

Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.

For You are the God of my refuge.
Why have You rejected me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?

Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.

Wake up, Lord! Why are You sleeping?
Get up! Don’t reject us forever!

Why do You hide Yourself
and forget our affliction and oppression?

Why should I fear in times of trouble?
The iniquity of my foes surrounds me.

For the choir director. A Davidic Maskil. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”Why brag about evil, you hero!
God’s faithful love is constant.

This is why God will bring you down forever.
He will take you, ripping you out of your tent;
He will uproot you from the land of the living.Selah

Why gaze with envy, you mountain peaks,
at the mountain God desired for His dwelling?
The Lord will live there forever!

A Maskil of Asaph.Why have You rejected us forever, God?
Why does Your anger burn
against the sheep of Your pasture?

Why do You hold back Your hand?
Stretch out Your right hand and destroy them!

Why should the nations ask,
“Where is their God?”
Before our eyes,
let vengeance for the shed blood of Your servants
be known among the nations.

Why have You broken down its walls
so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

Why was it, sea, that you fled?
Jordan, that you turned back?

Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”