Psalm 55:2

A Conservative Version

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

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Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

But truly God has heard. He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

I remember God, and am disquieted. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

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.

For thou are the God of my strength. Why have thou cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.

Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry. Give ear to my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.

Thou heard my voice. Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.