“Is my complaint directed to a human being? Why should I not be impatient?
that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin—
“What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
Hear my prayer, Lord; let my cry for help come to you.
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.
Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”
Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.”