Psalm 13:1
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Psalm 13
For the choir director: A psalm of David.
1 O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever?
How long will you look the other way?
Psalm 89:46
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46 O Lord, how long will this go on?
Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your anger burn like fire?
Job 13:24
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24 Why do you turn away from me?
Why do you treat me as your enemy?
Psalm 94:3-4
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3 How long, O Lord?
How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat?
4 How long will they speak with arrogance?
How long will these evil people boast?
Lamentations 5:20
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20 Why do you continue to forget us?
Why have you abandoned us for so long?
Psalm 35:17
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17 How long, O Lord, will you look on and do nothing?
Rescue me from their fierce attacks.
Protect my life from these lions!
Psalm 80:4
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4 O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies,
how long will you be angry with our prayers?
Psalm 44:24
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24 Why do you look the other way?
Why do you ignore our suffering and oppression?
Psalm 6:3
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3 I am sick at heart.
How long, O Lord, until you restore me?
Psalm 22:1-2
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Psalm 22
For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be sung to the tune “Doe of the Dawn.”
1 My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
Why are you so far away when I groan for help?
2 Every day I call to you, my God, but you do not answer.
Every night I lift my voice, but I find no relief.
Psalm 10:12
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12 Arise, O Lord!
Punish the wicked, O God!
Do not ignore the helpless!
Isaiah 59:2
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2 It’s your sins that have cut you off from God.
Because of your sins, he has turned away
and will not listen anymore.
Psalm 85:5
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5 Will you be angry with us always?
Will you prolong your wrath to all generations?
Psalm 74:1
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Psalm 74
A psalm[a] of Asaph.
1 O God, why have you rejected us so long?
Why is your anger so intense against the sheep of your own pasture?
Footnotes
- 74:Title Hebrew maskil. This may be a literary or musical term.
Psalm 90:14
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14 Satisfy us each morning with your unfailing love,
so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives.
Deuteronomy 31:17
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17 Then my anger will blaze forth against them. I will abandon them, hiding my face from them, and they will be devoured. Terrible trouble will come down on them, and on that day they will say, ‘These disasters have come down on us because God is no longer among us!’
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