How Long?

How long, how long, how long?

Hope deferred makes the heart sick

Who can bear a broken spirit?

How long O Lord? Will you forget me forever?

How long will You hide Your face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul?

Consider and hear me O Lord my God

Enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death

But I have trusted in Your mercy

I will sing to the Lord

Because He has dealt bountifully with me

When he opened the fifth seal

I saw under the altar the souls

Slain for the word of God

And testimony they held

They cried with a loud voice saying

How long O Lord, holy and true

Until you judge and avenge our blood

On those who dwell on the earth?

Rest a little while longer, brethren