I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;
and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water.
“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale!
As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God!
I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;
“And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.
And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.”
Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”
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