In My Distress I Sought the Lord
For the choir director. According to Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm.
My voice rises to God, and I must acry aloud;
My voice rises to God, and He will hear me.
2 In the aday of my distress I sought the Lord;
bIn the night my chand was stretched out without weariness;
My soul drefused to be comforted.
3 I remember God and I am adisturbed;
I bmuse and cmy spirit faints. Selah.
4 You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I acannot speak.
5 I give thought to the adays of old,
The years of long ago.
6 I remember my amusic in the night;
I bam musing with my heart,
And my spirit is searching:
7 Will the Lord areject evermore?
And will He bnot be favorable again?
8 Has His alovingkindness ceased forever?
Has His bword ended from generation to generation?
9 Has God aforgotten to be gracious,
Or has He in anger shut up His bcompassion? Selah.
10 Then I said, “aIt is my grief,
That the bright hand of the Most High has changed.”
11 I shall remember the adeeds of Yah;
Surely I will aremember Your wonders of old.
12 I will ameditate on all Your work
And muse on Your deeds.
13 O God, Your way is aholy;
bWhat god is great like God?
14 You are the aGod who works wonders;
You have bmade known Your strength among the peoples.
15 You have by Your arm aredeemed Your people,
The sons of Jacob and bJoseph. Selah.
16 The awaters saw You, O God;
The waters saw You, they were in anguish;
The deeps also trembled.
17 The aclouds poured out water;
The skies bgave forth a sound;
Your carrows went here and there.
18 The asound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind;
The blightnings lit up the world;
The cearth trembled and shook.
19 Your away was in the sea
And Your paths in the mighty waters,
But Your footprints were not known.
20 You aled Your people like a flock
By the hand of bMoses and Aaron.