Psalm 22:2

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

O LORD God of my saving health, I cry day and night before Thee;

And shall not God avenge his own elect who cry day and night unto him though he bears long regarding them?

As for me, I will call upon God, and the LORD shall save me.

O LORD God of the hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

Gimel Even when I cried and shouted, he shut out my prayer.

Samech Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud that our prayer should not pass through.

And leaving them, he went away again and prayed the third time, saying the same words.

And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God.

And he withdrew from them about a stone's cast and kneeled down and prayed,

night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face and might complete that which is lacking in your faith?

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day,