Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,
A Prayer of David. Hear, O Jehovah, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear `to' my prayer, without lips of deceit.
When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.
For thou `art' the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice, in my meditation, From the fear of an enemy Thou keepest my life,
But God hath heard, He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
I remember God, and make a noise, I meditate, and feeble is my spirit. Selah.
As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression `is' on me, be my surety.
We make a noise as bears -- all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation -- it hath been far from us.
My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing -- at my cry.