Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 55:2

"Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan," — Psalms 55:2 (ASV)

I mourn. —This verb is found in this form in only three other passages, always with the idea of restlessness — e.g.,Genesis 27:40, of the roving life of a Bedouin; Jeremiah 2:31, of moral restlessness; Hosea 12:1, of political instability. Here it may indicate either the bodily restlessness that often serves as an outlet for grief:

“Hard mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain,”

or the distracted state of the mind itself.

And make a noise. —Better, and must roar; the form of the verb expressing the compulsion that the sufferer feels to give vent to his feelings in groans and murmurs. (See Note on Psalms 42:5.)