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 Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt 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 art the God of my strength; why hast thou cast me off? Why go I 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 did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine 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.