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