When You said, “Seek My face [in prayer, require My presence as your greatest need],” my heart said to You,
“Your face, O Lord, I will seek [on the authority of Your word].”

For He has not despised nor detested the suffering of the afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His face from him;
But when he cried to Him for help, He listened.

This is the generation (description) of those who diligently seek Him and require Him as their greatest need,
Who seek Your face, even [as did] Jacob. Selah.

Do not hide Your face from me,
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not abandon me nor leave me,
O God of my salvation!

By Your favor and grace, O Lord, you have made my mountain stand strong;
You hid Your face, and I was horrified.

Make Your face shine upon Your servant;
Save me in Your lovingkindness.

The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God.
When will I come and see the face of God?

My dishonor is before me all day long,
And humiliation has covered my face,

Why do You hide Your face
And forget our affliction and our oppression?

Hide Your face from my sins
And blot out all my iniquities.

He will sit enthroned forever before [the face of] God;
Appoint lovingkindness and truth to watch over and preserve him.

God be gracious and kind-hearted to us and bless us,
And make His face shine [with favor] on us— Selah.

Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Confusion and dishonor have covered my face.

Do not hide Your face from Your servant,
For I am in distress; answer me quickly.

Restore us, O God;
Cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved.

Restore us, O God of hosts;
And cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved.

Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;
Cause Your face to shine on us [in favor and approval], and we shall be saved.

See our shield, O God,
And look at the face of Your anointed [the king as Your representative].

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

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;
Lovingkindness and truth go before You.

“I will crush his adversaries before him,
And strike those who hate him.

Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress!
Incline Your ear to me;
In the day when I call, answer me quickly.

And wine which makes the heart of man glad,
So that he may make his face glisten with oil,
And bread to sustain and strengthen man’s heart.

You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their breath, they die
And return to their dust.

You send out Your Spirit, they are created;
You renew the face of the ground.

Seek and deeply long for the Lord and His strength [His power, His might];
Seek and deeply long for His face and His presence continually.