⁹ Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.

⁶ I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

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

¹⁷ Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;

²⁰ To hear the sighing of the prisoner; To loose those that are appointed to death;

⁴⁸ Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

²² For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

²³ And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for `our' adoption, `to wit', the redemption of our body.

²⁶ And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for `us' with groanings which cannot be uttered;

²⁷ and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to `the will of' God.

² For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven: