My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of my eyes is not with me.

My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is your God?

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

[ 16:21] Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let my eye weep before Him.

For my eyes are dimmed through pain, I have been grievously beset by all.

My eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

PHE. My eye is drowned [with tears], and I will not be silent, so that there shall be no rest,

Jesus wept.

A song of a Psalm for the sons of Korah for the end, upon Mahaleth for responsive [strains], of instruction for Heman the Israelite. O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before You.

Evening and morning and at noon I will declare and make known [my needs]; and He shall hear my voice.

Pity me, O Lord; for to You will I cry all the day.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out?

Ambassadors shall arrive out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall hasten [to stretch out] her hand readily to God.

I spread forth my hands to You; my soul [thirsts] for You, as a dry land. Pause.

Moreover the word of the Lord came to me saying,

For if you have made your heart pure, and lifted up [your] hands towards Him;