For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the disquietness of my heart.
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.
so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
How long will thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
My soul refuses to touch [them]. They are as loathsome food to me.
And now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against LORD. And Samuel judged the sons of Israel in Mizpah.