I’m sleepless, shivering in the cold, forlorn, and friendless, like a lonely bird on the rooftop.
I can’t get a wink of sleep until you come and comfort me. Now I’m too burdened to even pray!
I long for you more than any watchman would long for the morning light. I will watch and wait for you, O God, throughout the night.
Why do you remain distant, refusing to answer my tearful cries in the day and my desperate cries for your help in the night? I can’t stop sobbing. Where are you, my God?