Psalm 55:2

Attend unto me, and answer me: I wander about in my plaint, and I moan aloud,

Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed with looking upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

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

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

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

I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.

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

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Hear, O God, my voice in my plaint; preserve my life from fear of the enemy:

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

I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

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

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