“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?

Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah

In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.

May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who …

Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—

A song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.

See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.

For with one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against You—

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah

Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,

who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”

Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.