Why do You hide Your face
They ask why God hides his face and forgets their affliction and oppression.
This verse names their suffering in relational terms of hiddenness.
1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. 2With Your hand You drove out the nations 3For it was not by their sword that they took the land; 4You are my King, O God, 5Through You we repel our foes; 6For I do not trust in my bow, 7For You save us from our enemies; 8In God we have boasted all day long, 9But You have rejected and humbled us; 10You have made us retreat from the foe, 11You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; 12You sell Your people for nothing; 13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, 14You have made us a byword among the nations, 15All day long my disgrace is before me, 16at the voice of the scorner and reviler, 17All this has come upon us, 18Our hearts have not turned back; 19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; 20If we had forgotten the name of our God 21would not God have discovered, 22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; 23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? 24Why do You hide Your face 25For our soul has sunk to the dust; 26Rise up; be our help!