During that night the king's sleep escaped [him], and he gave orders to bring the {scroll of records and chronicles}, and they were read before the king.

When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,'

I am

Then they sat with him on the ground [for] seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that {his} suffering was very great.

for then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash,

General references

Remove the troubles of my heart; bring me out from my distresses.

When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in [the] night watches.