⁷ Lord, listen to my voice when I cry out—
    have mercy on me and answer me!
⁸ Come, my heart says, seek God’s face.^[a]
    Lord, I do seek your face!
⁹ Please don’t hide it from me!
    Don’t push your servant aside angrily—
        you have been my help!
    God who saves me,
        don’t neglect me!
        Don’t leave me all alone!
¹⁰ Even if my father and mother left me all alone,
    the Lord would take me in.

⁵ Father of orphans and defender of widows
    is God in his holy habitation.
⁶ God settles the lonely in their homes;
    he sets prisoners free with happiness,^[a]
    but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.