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 vexation; it grows old because of all my oppressors.

My eye languishes from misery. I call on you, O Yahweh, every day; I spread out my hands to you.

And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.

Still our eyes failed, [looking for] our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save.

Because of this, our heart has become faint, because of these, our eyes have become dim.

O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger, and do not discipline me in your wrath.

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 Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger or chastise me in your wrath.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our {body} clings to the ground.

And I have been plagued all day and rebuked {every morning}.

For my soul is full with troubles, and my life approaches Sheol.

for my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are charred like a hearth.

[Those who] sat in darkness and gloom, prisoners of misery and iron--

"And he is reproved with pain on his bed, even [with] the strife of his bones continually,