“ And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.

“现在我心极其悲伤；困苦的日子将我抓住。

“现在我的心极其悲伤，困苦的日子将我抓住。

“现在我的心极其悲伤，困苦的日子将我抓住。

“如今我的生命将尽，痛苦的日子抓住我。

现在我的心伤恸有如倒了出来，苦难的日子把我抓住。

現在我心極其悲傷；困苦的日子將我抓住。

「現在我的心極其悲傷，困苦的日子將我抓住。

「現在我的心極其悲傷，困苦的日子將我抓住。

「如今我的生命將盡，痛苦的日子抓住我。

現在我的心傷慟有如倒了出來，苦難的日子把我抓住。

『如今呢、我的心只能向自己吐意；苦難日子抓住了我。

我魂頹敗、患難之日執我、

今我困苦不堪、聊抒憤懣。

今我因憂鬱而中心頹喪、我遭遇患難之日、

“ And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.

“ Now my life is slipping away. Days of suffering grab hold of me.

“ And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.

“ And now my life seeps away. Depression haunts my days.

Now my life is poured out before me, and days of suffering have seized me.

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

“ And now my soul is poured out because of my plight; The days of affliction take hold of me.

And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

Now my life is poured out before my eyes, and days of suffering have seized me.

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

“ Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.

I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.

My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.

So I will assign him a portion with the multitudes, he will divide the spoils of victory with the powerful, because he willingly submitted to death and was numbered with the rebels, when he lifted up the sin of many and intervened on behalf of the rebels.”

For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.

But Hannah replied,“ That’s not the way it is, my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to the LORD.

For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.