Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
If thou prepare thine heart, And stretch out thine hands toward him;
Be merciful unto me, O Lord: For I cry unto thee daily.
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: My soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Jesus wept.
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto 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 thee:
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto 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 unto me, Where is thy God?
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath 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 hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: He hath made my chain heavy.