I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
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!
My eyes long for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.
My eyes long for your promise; I ask, “When will you comfort me?”
Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless.
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.”
My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city.
They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,
But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”
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