What shall I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it. Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity.
“And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,
And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.
O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
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