For thou art the God of my strength; Why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me.
That thy beloved may be delivered, Save with thy right hand, and answer us.
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!