“I will announce the decree of the Lord: He said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have fathered You.

In You our fathers trusted; They trusted and You rescued them.

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, But the Lord will take me up.

“Hear my prayer, Lord, and listen to my cry for help; Do not be silent to my tears; For I am a stranger with You, One who lives abroad, like all my fathers.

Former Times of Help and Present Troubles.

For the music director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.

God, we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have told us The work that You did in their days, In the days of old.

Listen, daughter, look and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house;

In place of your fathers will be your sons; You shall make them princes in all the earth.

He will go to the generation of his fathers; They will never see the light.

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows, Is God in His holy dwelling.

Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.

For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers That they were to teach them to their children,

And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not prepare its heart And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

He performed wonders before their fathers In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers; They turned aside like a treacherous bow.

Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’

“When your fathers put Me to the test, They tested Me, though they had seen My work.

Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

We have sinned like our fathers, We have gone astray, we have behaved wickedly.

Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

May his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

May there be none to extend kindness to him, Nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children.

May the guilt of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, And do not let the sin of his mother be wiped out.

The Lord watches over strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow, But He thwarts the way of the wicked.