Like a crane {or} a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail {with looking} upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. {undertake...: or, ease me}

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

{But} verily God hath heard {me}; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but {there is} none; for salvation, {but} it is far off from us.

[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. {troubled: Heb. wried}

For thou {art} the God of my strength: why dost 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,

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? {chief...: or, overseer}

Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.

[A Prayer of David.] Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, {that goeth} not out of feigned lips. {the right: Heb. justice} {not...: Heb. without lips of deceit}

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make {the oppressed} to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.