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 eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

O Lord, do not be bitter with me in your wrath; do not send punishment on me in the heat of your passion.

I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.

For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;