Attend to me, and answer me; I am overcome by my trouble. I am distraught
Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
When I declared not my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.
I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
For thou art the God in whom I take refuge; why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy,
But truly God has listened; he has given heed to the voice of my prayer.
I think of God, and I moan; I meditate, and my spirit faints. Selah
Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be thou my security!
We all growl like bears, we moan and moan like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
thou didst hear my plea, ‘Do not close thine ear to my cry for help!’