Because of the sound of my groaning My bones cling to my skin.
My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Now their appearance is blacker than soot; They go unrecognized in the streets; Their skin clings to their bones, It has become as dry as wood.
A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.
I am weary with my groaning; All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.
So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat.
He comes forth like a flower and fades away; He flees like a shadow and does not continue.
In the morning it flourishes and grows up; In the evening it is cut down and withers.