¹ How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
² How long must I experience worries in my soul,
sorrow in my heart every day?
How long will my enemy tower over me?

³ Look at me. Answer me, O Lord my God.
Give light to my eyes
    so I do not sleep in death,
⁴     so my enemy does not say, “I have overcome him,”
    so my foes do not rejoice when I fall.

⁵ But I trust in your mercy.
My heart rejoices in your salvation.
⁶ I will sing to the Lord
    because he has accomplished his purpose for me.

¹ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt. They do disgusting things.
There is no one who does good.
² The Lord looks down from heaven on all the children of Adam
    to see if there is anyone who understands, anyone who seeks God.
³ Every one of them has turned away.
Altogether they have become rotten.
There is no one who does good.
There is not even one.

⁴ Don’t any of these evildoers understand,
those who devour my people as if they were eating bread?
They do not call on the Lord.
⁵ There they are! They are terrified
    because God is present in the circle of the righteous.
⁶ You try to put the plans of the poor to shame,
but the Lord is their refuge.

⁷ Who will provide salvation for Israel from Zion? ^[1]
When the Lord restores his people,
let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!