I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.
I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation
The Lord upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down.
my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O Lord; I spread out my hands to you.
They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
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!
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