Psalm 42:4

But Hannah answered and said, “No, my lord, I am a woman oppressed in spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before Yahweh.

“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my roaring pours out like water.

“And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have seized me.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

Oh send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy mountain And to Your dwelling places.

We who had sweet counsel together Walked in the house of God in the throng.

Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah.

A Song of Ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of Yahweh.”

“If because of the sabbath, you turn your foot From doing your own desire on My holy day, And call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of Yahweh honorable, And honor it, by not doing your own ways, By not finding your own desire And speaking your own word,

In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious things That were from the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her; They laughed at her ruin.

They say to their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” As they faint like a wounded man In the open squares of the city, As their life is poured out On their mothers’ bosom.

“Arise, cry aloud in the night At the head of the night watches; Pour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord; Lift up your hands to Him For the life of your infants Who are faint because of hunger At the head of every street.”

“So when they go in, the prince shall go in among them; and when they go out, he shall go out.

“I will assemble those who grieve about the appointed feasts— They were from you, O Zion; The reproach of exile is a burden on them.