He strikes them for their wickedness, ¹  in a place where people can see, ² 

But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night, ¹ 

“In what direction ¹  does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses ¹  are, there it is.”

For the hills bring it food, ¹  where all the wild animals play.

From the place where he lives he looks carefully at all the earth’s inhabitants.

He abandoned ¹  the sanctuary at Shiloh, the tent where he lived among men.

where the birds make nests, near the evergreens in which the herons live. ¹ 

Your statutes have been my songs ¹  in the house where I live. ² 

A song of ascents. ²  I look up ³  toward the hills. From where ⁴  does my help come?

I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me. ¹ 

I cared ¹  for you in the wilderness, in the dry desert where no water was. ² 

“As for your ancestors, where are they? And did the prophets live forever?

I asked the messenger who was speaking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”

For the land where you are headed ¹  is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand ²  like a vegetable garden.

Instruct them, ‘Pick up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests ¹  stand firmly, and carry them over with you and put them in the place where you camp tonight.’”

The Maidens to the Beloved: Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned? Tell us, ¹  that we may seek him with you. ² 

In the past he said to them, ¹  “This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” ²  But they refused to listen.

His people remembered the ancient times. ¹  Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea, along with the shepherd of ²  his flock? Where is the one who placed his holy Spirit among them, ³ 

Then I said, ¹  “Look up, Jerusalem, ²  and see the enemy ³  that is coming from the north. Where now is the flock of people that were entrusted to your care? ⁴  Where now are the ‘sheep’ that you take such pride in? ⁵