Psalm 31:9

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Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands to thee.

My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim,

O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath, nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body clings to the ground.

for all the day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

[even] those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

He also is chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones,