Like a swallow {\i or} a crane, so did I chatter;\par\tab I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail {\i with looking} upward:\par\tab O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried:\par\tab Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.\par
But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.
I am a brother to jackals,\par\tab And a companion to ostriches.
Our eyes do yet fail {\i in looking} for our vain help:\par\tab In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth:\par\tab Hide not thy face from me,\par\tab Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
Mine eyes fail for thy word,\par\tab While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself;\par\tab Who is there that will strike hands with me?
by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
Attend unto me, and answer me:\par\tab I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, {\i they cry}; but none looketh back.