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Psalm 55:2

Modern English Version

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

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Hear a just cause, O Lord, attend to my cry; give ear to my prayer that is not from deceitful lips.

When I kept silent, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.

I am bent down, I am bowed down greatly; I go around mourning all day long.

For You are the God of my refuge; why have You cast me off? Why do I walk about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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

but certainly God has heard me; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah

Like a crane or a swallow, so I twitter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look wistfully upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

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.

You have heard my plea: “Do not close Your ear to my cry for help!”