For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groaning pours forth like the waters.
“Now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have taken hold of me.
so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
My soul refuses to touch them; they are like loathsome food to me.
How long until You look away from me? Will You not let me alone until I swallow my saliva?
For I eat ashes like bread and mingle my drink with tears,
When I kept silent, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.
I am feeble and severely broken; I groan because of the disquietness of my heart.
You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in great measure.
We all roar like bears and mourn sadly like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
Even when I cry for help, He shuts out my prayer.
They gathered together to Mizpah. And they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. And they fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel judged the Israelites in Mizpah.