1. I WILL cry to God with my voice, even to God with my voice, and He will give ear and hearken to me.
2. In the day of my trouble I seek (inquire of and desperately require) the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out [in prayer] without slacking up; I refuse to be comforted.
3. I [earnestly] remember God; I am disquieted and I groan; I muse in prayer, and my spirit faints [overwhelmed]. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
4. You hold my eyes from closing; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
5. I consider the days of old, the years of bygone times [of prosperity].