Psalm 55:2

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

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?

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

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.

Hear my prayer, O God. Give ear to the words of my mouth.