My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

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

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

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

Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

Jesus wept.

O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;