Psa 43:2-5, 61:2, 63:5-6, 73:12-16, 77:2-10, Jer 20:7-11, Hab 3:16-18 | ESV | STEP | For you are the God in whom I take refuge ; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy ?

2 For you are ^athe God in whom I take refuge;
why have you ^brejected me?
Why do I ^cgo about mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?
3 ^dSend out your light and your truth;
let them lead me;
let them bring me to your ^eholy hill
and to your ^fdwelling!
4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
to God my exceeding joy,
and I will praise you with the lyre,
O God, my God.
5 ^gWhy are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
^hHope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.

Psalms 61:2

2 from the end of the earth I call to you
when my heart is ⁱfaint.
Lead me to ^jthe rock
that is higher than I,

Psalms 63:5-6

5 My soul will be ^ksatisfied as with fat and rich food,
and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,
6 when I remember you ^lupon my bed,
and meditate on you in ^mthe watches of the night;

Psalms 73:12-16

12 Behold, these are the wicked;
always at ease, they ⁿincrease in riches.
13 All in vain have I ^okept my heart clean
and ^pwashed my hands in innocence.
14 For all the day long I have been ^qstricken
and ^rrebuked ^severy morning.
15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
I would have betrayed ^tthe generation of your children.
16 But when I thought how to understand this,
it seemed to me ^ua wearisome task,

Psalms 77:2-10

2 ^vIn the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;
in ^wthe night my ^xhand is stretched out without wearying;
my soul ^yrefuses to be comforted.
3 When I remember God, I ^zmoan;
when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah
4 You hold my eyelids open;
I am so ^aatroubled that I cannot speak.
5 I consider ^abthe days of old,
the years long ago.
6 I said, ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks I said} “Let me remember my ^adsong in the night;
let me ^aemeditate in my heart.”
Then my spirit made a diligent search:
7 “Will the Lord ^afspurn forever,
and never again ^agbe favorable?
8 Has his steadfast love forever ceased?
Are his ^ahpromises at an end for all time?
9 ^aiHas God forgotten to be gracious?
^ajHas he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah
10 Then I said, “I will appeal to this,
to the years of the ^akright hand of the Most High.” ^{▼▼Or This is my grief: that the right hand of the Most High has changed}

Jeremiah 20:7-11

7 O Lord, ^amyou have deceived me,
and I was deceived;
^anyou are stronger than I,
and you have prevailed.
^aoI have become a laughingstock all the day;
everyone mocks me.
8 For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I shout, ^ap“Violence and destruction!”
For ^aqthe word of the Lord has become for me
^ara reproach and ^asderision all day long.
9 If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
^atthere is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and ^auI am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
10 ^avFor I hear many whispering.
^awTerror is on every side!
“Denounce him! ^axLet us denounce him!”
say all my ^ayclose friends,
^azwatching for ^bamy fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
then ^bbwe can overcome him
and take our revenge on him.”
11 But ^bcthe Lord is with me as a dread warrior;
therefore my persecutors will stumble;
^bdthey will not overcome me.
^beThey will be greatly shamed,
for they will not succeed.
Their ^bfeternal dishonor
will never be forgotten.

Habakkuk 3:16-18

16 ^bgI hear, and ^bhmy body trembles;
my lips quiver at the sound;
^birottenness enters into my bones;
my legs tremble beneath me.
Yet ^bjI will quietly wait for the day of trouble
to come upon people who invade us.

Habakkuk Rejoices in the Lord

17 Though the fig tree should not blossom,
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
and there be no herd in the stalls,
18 ^bkyet I will rejoice in the Lord;
^blI will take joy in the God of my salvation.