Why are nations in tumult, and countries plotting in vain?

Why, O Yahweh, do you stand far off? [Why] do you hide during times of distress?

Why does the wicked treat God with contempt? He says in his heart, "You will not call [me] to account."

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

Why are you {in despair}, O my soul, and disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, [for] the salvation of his presence.

I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?"

Why are you {in despair}, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I shall again praise him, {my salvation} and my God.

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?

Why are you {in despair}, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, {my salvation} and my God.

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

Why do you hide your face? [Have] you forgotten our misery and our oppression?

Why should I fear in {times of calamity}, [when] iniquity surrounds me at my heels,

Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The loyal love of God [endures] {continually}.

Why do you look with hostility, O many-peaked mountains? This mountain God desires for his dwelling. Yes, Yahweh will abide [in it] forever.

Why, O God, have you rejected [us] forever? [Why] does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? [Take it] from your bosom; destroy [them]!

Why should the nations say, "Where [is] their God?" Let it be known among the nations before our eyes, [by] the avenging of the blood of your servants that was poured out.

Why have you broken down its walls, so that all [who] pass on [the] road pluck [fruit from] it?

Why do you reject my soul, O Yahweh? [Why] do you hide your face from me?

Why should the nations say, "Where, {pray tell}, [is] their God?"