Have mercy on me, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my eye has become old with grief, my soul and my belly.
My eye is dim because of grief; it wastes away because of all my enemies.
My eye mourns because of affliction; O Jehovah, I have called daily on You; I have stretched out my hands to You.
My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart, and my part forever.
Our heart is faint for this; our eyes are dim for these things.
While we are, our eyes fail, for our help is vain; in our watching we have watched for a nation; it does not save.
Those who sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, being chained in affliction and iron;
For all the day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.
those which my lips have uttered and my mouth has spoken in my trouble.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly holds fast to the earth.
My eye also is dim from grief; and all my members are like a shadow.
He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me because He delighted in me.
Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.
I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them; nor did I turn again until they were destroyed.