Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.