Translations
Evening, morning, and noon I cry out and pour out my groaning;
And He hears me every time.
Evening, morning and noon I pour out my lament and I moan;
And He hears my voice.
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.
Footnotes
Evening is listed first because in Hebrew reckoning the day begins at sunset (cf. Gen 1: 'evening and morning, the first day'). The three-fold pattern of prayer—evening, morning, and noon—became the foundation of Jewish daily liturgical prayer (Ma'ariv, Shacharit, and Minchah), and likely reflects ancient Israelite worship practice embedded here in personal lament. The psalmist's grief is not a single desperate cry but a sustained, structured discipline of turning to YHWH at every appointed hour. Both translations preserve the Hebrew sequence, with F.O.G 'pour out my lament' emphasising the liturgical-lamentation register and F.O.G.M 'He hears me every time' underscoring the repeated faithfulness of God's response.

