Psalm 55:2

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.

I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long.

For thou are the God of my strength. Why have thou cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

But truly God has heard. He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

I remember God, and am disquieted. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

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

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