²⁰ “I cry out to you,^(A) God, but you do not answer;^(B)
    I stand up, but you merely look at me.

⁷ “Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response;^(A)
    though I call for help,^(B) there is no justice.^(C)

⁴⁴ You have covered yourself with a cloud^(A)
    so that no prayer^(B) can get through.^(C)

⁸ Even when I call out or cry for help,^(A)
    he shuts out my prayer.^(B)

⁴ How long,^(A) Lord God Almighty,
    will your anger smolder^(B)
    against the prayers of your people?
⁵ You have fed them with the bread of tears;^(C)
    you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.^(D)

⁹ Does God listen to their cry
    when distress comes upon them?^(A)