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

⁶ I am weary with my groaning; all the 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 skin.

¹⁷ LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

²⁰ To hear the groaning 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 that 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 they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

²⁶ Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself 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 in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: