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

My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, "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.

My eyes overflow with rivers of water For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

My eyes flow and do not cease, Without interruption,

Jesus wept.

A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. Set to "Mahalath Leannoth." A Contemplation of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, God of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You.

Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, And He shall hear my voice.

Be merciful to me, O Lord, For I cry to You all day long.

If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god,

Envoys will come out of Egypt; Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.

I spread out my hands to You; My soul [longs] for You like a thirsty land. Selah

Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

"If you would prepare your heart, And stretch out your hands toward Him;