² Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

¹⁴ Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

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

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

¹⁰ Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

³ I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

¹⁹ But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

¹ Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

² For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

⁶ I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

³ When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

¹ How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?