For my sighing cometh before I eat,\par\tab And my groanings are poured out like water.
For I have eaten ashes like bread,\par\tab And mingled my drink with weeping,
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears,\par\tab And given them tears to drink in large measure.
I am faint and sore bruised:\par\tab I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
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.
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away\par\tab Through my groaning all the day long.
So that his life abhorreth bread,\par\tab And his soul dainty food.
How long wilt thou not look away from me,\par\tab Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
My soul refuseth to touch {\i them};\par\tab They are as loathsome food to me.\par
And now my soul is poured out within me;\par\tab Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Jehovah, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Jehovah. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.