Psalm 55:2

English Standard Version 2016

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

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Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!

But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah

Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.

We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!

you heard my plea, ‘Do not close your ear to my cry for help!’