1 How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?

How long will you hide your face from me?  *

2 How long will I store up anxious concerns  * within me,

agony in my mind every day?

How long will my enemy dominate me?  *

3 Consider me and answer, Lord  my God.

Restore brightness to my eyes;  *

otherwise, I will sleep in death.

4 My enemy will say, "I have triumphed over him,"

and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.  *

5 But I have trusted in your faithful love;  *

my heart will rejoice in your deliverance.  *

6 I will sing to the  Lord

because he has treated me generously.  *