Psalm 55:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Attend to me, and answer me; I am overcome by my trouble. I am distraught

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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!

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

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

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.

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?

I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.

When I declared not my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!

thou didst hear my plea, ‘Do not close thine ear to my cry for help!’