⁹ Lord, before Thee `is' all my desire, And my sighing from Thee hath not been hid.

⁶ I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night `on' my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.

⁵ From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.

¹⁷ The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

²⁰ To hear the groan of the prisoner, To loose sons of death,

⁴⁸ Nathanael saith to him, `Whence me dost thou know?' Jesus answered and said to him, `Before Philip's calling thee -- thou being under the fig-tree -- I saw thee.'

²² for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.

²³ And not only `so', but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting -- the redemption of our body;

²⁶ And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth `us', we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,

²⁷ and He who is searching the hearts hath known what `is' the mind of the Spirit, because according to God he doth intercede for saints.

² for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,