mine eyes were sick [or enfeebled] for poverty. Lord, I cried to thee; all day I spreaded abroad mine hands to thee.
But thou hast made steadfast thine heart, and hast spread abroad thine hands to him.
O! my friends, full of words; mine eye droppeth out tears to God.
Mine eye dimmed at [the] indig-nation; and my members be driven as into nought.
Why is light given to a man, whose way is hid, and God hath encompassed him with darknesses?
For I ate ashes as bread; and I meddled [or mingled] my drink with weeping.
I held forth mine hands to thee; my soul was as earth without water to thee.
Mine heart is troubled in me, my virtue forsook me; and the light of mine eyes, and it is not with me.
and they did violence, that sought my life. And they that sought evils to me, spake vanities; and thought guiles [or treacheries] all day.
My tears were loaves to me day and night; while it is said to me each day, Where is thy God?
If we forgat the name of our God; and if we held forth our hands to an alien God.
In the eventide, and [the] morrow-tide, and in midday, I shall tell, and show; and he shall hear my voice.
Mine eye is troubled of strong vengeance; I waxed eld or old among all mine enemies.
legates shall come from Egypt; Ethiopia shall come before the hands thereof to God.
Lord, have thou mercy on me, for I cried all day to thee;
The song of the psalm, to the sons of Korah, to victory on Mahalath, for to answer the learning of Heman the Ezrahite. Lord God of mine health; I cried in day and night before thee.
He builded about against me, that I go not out; he aggrieved my gyves or fetters.
And the word of the Lord was made to me, and he said,
And Jesus wept.