For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine 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, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!