²⁴ Why do you look the other way?
    Why do you ignore our suffering and oppression?

²⁰ He said, ‘I will abandon them;
    then see what becomes of them.
For they are a twisted generation,
    children without integrity.

²⁷ O Jacob, how can you say the Lord does not see your troubles?
    O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?
²⁸ Have you never heard?
    Have you never understood?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
    the Creator of all the earth.
He never grows weak or weary.
    No one can measure the depths of his understanding.

²³ Don’t overlook what your enemies have said
    or their growing uproar.

¹⁹ Don’t let these wild beasts destroy your turtledoves.
    Don’t forget your suffering people forever.

⁹ “O God my rock,” I cry,
    “Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I wander around in grief,
    oppressed by my enemies?”

¹ O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever?
    How long will you look the other way?