The land cries out

5For even the doe in the field gives birth and abandons her young, because there is no grass.

6And the wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no grass.

7Though our iniquities testify against us, O Yahweh, act for your name’s sake; for our apostasies are many; against you we have sinned.

8O Hope of Israel, his Savior in time of distress, why should you be like a foreigner in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to spend the night?

9Why should you be like a stunned man, like a warrior who cannot save? Yet you are in our midst, O Yahweh, and your name is called over us; do not forsake us.