Will You ever look away from me, or leave me alone until I swallow my saliva?

You fed them the bread of tears and gave them a full measure of tears to drink.

I eat ashes like bread and mingle my drinks with tears

[For the choir director: according to "The Deer of the Dawn." A Davidic psalm.] My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? [Why are You] so far from my deliverance and from my words of groaning?

My God, I cry by day, but You do not answer, by night, yet I have no rest.

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

I am faint and severely crushed; I groan because of the anguish of my heart.

We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, [but] it is far from us.

Even when I cry out and plead for help, He rejects my prayer.