³ My tears have been my food
    day and night,
while people say to me continually,
    “Where is your God?”^(A)

⁹ My soul yearns for you in the night;
    my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgments are in the earth,
    the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.^(A)

²⁰ Your children have fainted;
    they lie at the head of every street
    like an antelope in a net;
they are full of the wrath of the Lord,
    the rebuke of your God.^(A)