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 is consumed because of grief; it groweth old because of all my enemies.

My eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands to thee.

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shade.

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

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

To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy anger, neither 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 in the midst of my bowels.

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.

For all the day long have I been afflicted, and chastened every morning.

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave.

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

Such as sit in darkness and in the shades of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: