My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily on you, I have stretched out my hands to you.
If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him;
Be merciful to me, O Lord: for I cry to you daily.
I stretch forth my hands to you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah.
My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
Jesus wept.
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God.
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?
My eye is consumed because of grief; it waxes old because of all my enemies.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears to God.
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.