¹⁴ Like a swallow `or' a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail `with looking' upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

¹¹ We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

⁷ And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.

¹⁶ But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

¹²² Be surety for thy servant for good: Let not the proud oppress me.

¹²³ Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, And for thy righteous word.

³ I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

²⁹ I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

¹⁷ Our eyes do yet fail `in looking' for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

⁷ Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.

¹ Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that sittest in the heavens.

² Behold, as the eyes of servants `look' unto the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maid unto the hand of her mistress; So our eyes `look' unto Jehovah our God, Until he have mercy upon us.

³ Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud. Psalm 124 A Song of Ascents; of David.

⁸² Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?

⁴ My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

⁶ I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

⁷ I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.

³ Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?