Alone

You are long-suffering..

   Do not take me away;

 Think of how I suffer reproach

      For your sake.

When your words came

        I ate them;

  They were my joy

    And my heart's delight,

 For I bear your name,

     O Lord God Almighty

I never sat in the company of revelers,

    Never made merry with them;

  I sat alone because your hand was on me,

     And you had filled me with indignation.

Why is my pain unending

  And my wound grievous and incurable?

 Will you be to me like a deceptive brook,

    Like a spring that fails?

                                        God's Word.