Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ¹  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ² 

But respond favorably to ¹  your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer ²  the desperate prayer ³  your servant is presenting to you. ⁴ 

Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ¹  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ² 

For he ¹  is not a human being like I am, that ²  I might answer him, that we might come ³  together in judgment.

“If only I had ¹  someone to hear me! Here is my signature – ²  let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment ³  that my accuser had written. ⁴ 

With Job’s ¹  three friends he was also angry, because they could not find ²  an answer, and so declared Job guilty. ³ 

Lord, in the morning ¹  you will hear ²  me; ³  in the morning I will present my case to you ⁴  and then wait expectantly for an answer. ⁵ 

They cry out, but there is no one to help them; ¹  they cry out to the Lord, ²  but he does not answer them.

For the music director; a psalm of David. May the Lord answer ²  you ³  when you are in trouble; ⁴  may the God of Jacob ⁵  make you secure!

My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up. ¹ 

O Lord, may you hear my prayer and be favorably disposed to me! ¹  O God, because of your great loyal love, answer me with your faithful deliverance! ² 

When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor.

Do not ignore me in my time of trouble! ¹  Listen to me! ²  When I call out to you, quickly answer me!

A psalm of David. O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my plea for help! Because of your faithfulness and justice, answer me!

Answer me quickly, Lord! My strength is fading. ¹  Do not reject me, ²  or I will join ³  those descending into the grave. ⁴ 

Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek ¹  me, but they will not find me.

The answer will come back, “It is because they broke their covenant with the Lord their God and worshiped and served other gods.”

So I, Jeremiah, tell you, ¹  “Each of you people should say to his friend or his relative, ‘How did the Lord answer? Or what did the Lord say?’ ² 

Each of you should merely ask the prophet, ‘What answer did the Lord give you? Or what did the Lord say?’ ¹ 

‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious ¹  things which you still do not know about.’