Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!
We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.
And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.
A Song of Ascents. To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens! Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he has mercy upon us. Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt. Our soul has had more than enough of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud.
Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me. My eyes long for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.
I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.
Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
Answer me quickly, O Lord! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.
My eyes long for your promise; I ask, “When will you comfort me?”
My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread. Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh. I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places; I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.
“Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me?
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