Lord, all my desire {is} before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where {is} thy God?

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears {are} on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort {her}: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

My friends scorn me: {but} mine eye poureth out {tears} unto God. {scorn me: Heb. are my scorners}

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}

Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

For these {things} I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. {relieve: Heb. bring back}

Even to day {is} my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. {stroke: Heb. hand}

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. {swoon: or, faint}

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. {sore: Heb. hand}

Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

And stood at his feet behind {him} weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe {them} with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed {them} with the ointment.

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I {am} a stranger with thee, {and} a sojourner, as all my fathers {were}.

Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

For his anger {endureth but} a moment; in his favour {is} life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy {cometh} in the morning. {his anger...: Heb. there is but a moment in his anger} {for a night: Heb. in the evening} {joy: Heb. singing}

Lord, all my desire {is} before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

For I {am} ready to halt, and my sorrow {is} continually before me. {to halt: Heb. for halting}

I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears {are} on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort {her}: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

And stood at his feet behind {him} weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe {them} with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed {them} with the ointment.

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? {the body...: or, this body of death}

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. {the night...: Heb. the evening be measured?}

My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids {is} the shadow of death;

For all his days {are} sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. {skin: or, flesh}

And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured {it} out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

Blessed {are ye} that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed {are ye} that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done {that which is} good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. {sore: Heb. with a great weeping}

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