in the waiting.

My guilt has overwhelmed me
like a burden too heavy to bear.
I am feeble and utterly crushed;
I groan in anguish of heart.

All my longings lie open before you, Lord;
my sighing is not hidden from you.
My heart pounds, my strength fails me;
even the light has gone from my eyes.

I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,
like the mute, who cannot speak;
I have become like one who does not hear,
whose mouth can offer no reply.

LORD, I wait for you;
you will answer, Lord my God.

For I am about to fall,
and my pain is ever with me.
I confess my iniquity;
I am troubled by my sin.

LORD, do not forsake me;
do not be far from me, my God.
Come quickly to help me,
my Lord and my Savior.

-psalm 38.