My flesh and my skin has He worn out and made old; He has shattered my bones.
My skin falls from me in blackened flakes, and my bones are burned with heat.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is softened [with anguish] and melted down within me.
When I kept silence [before I confessed], my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.
Make me to hear joy and gladness and be satisfied; let the bones which You have broken rejoice.
I thought and quieted myself until morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day to night You bring me to an end.
Israel is a hunted and scattered sheep [driven hither and thither and preyed upon by savage beasts]; the lions have chased him. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken and gnawed his bones.