My heart pants; my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day, Where is your God?

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

My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.

My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like shadows.

Streams of water run down my eyes for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

My eyes flow and do not cease, with no stopping,

Jesus wept.

i1 [A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician. Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] i0 par O Jehovah the God of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You.

Evening and morning and at noon I meditate and am in a stir; and He will hear my voice.

Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for I cry out to You daily.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god,

Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall hurry with gifts in her hands unto God.

I have spread my hands toward You; my soul is like a weary land. Selah

Moreover the Word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

If you have prepared your heart, and spread out your hands toward Him;