For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace. My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread. Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh. I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places; I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.
When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
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