Psalms 77:2-10

²Whenever have trouble, I pray to the Lord; all during the night I lift up my hands while I pray, but nothing causes me to be comforted.

³When I think about God, I ◄despair/think that he will never help me►; when I meditate about him, I am discouraged.

⁴All during the night he prevents me from sleeping; I am very worried, with the result that I do not know what to say.

⁵I think about days that have passed; I remember what happened in previous years.

⁶I spend the whole night thinking about things; I meditate, and this is what I ask myself:

⁷“Will the Lord always reject us? Will he never again be pleased with us?

⁸Has he stopped faithfully loving us? Will he not do for us what he promised to do?

⁹God promised to be merciful to us; has he forgotten that? Because he is angry with us, has he decided to not be kind to us?”

¹⁰Then I said, “What causes me to be very sad is that it seems that God, who is greater than any other god, is no longer powerful.”