I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
They have gaped at me with their mouths; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.
God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
“And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.
I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me;
For my life is spent with sorrow and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.
They open wide their mouths against me; they say, “Aha, Aha, our eyes have seen it.”
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish before God.
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us;
Then the king’s face turned pale, and his thoughts terrified him. His limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.
Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts faint and knees tremble; all loins quake; all faces grow pale!
Then he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and stay awake with me.”
In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.]]
“Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say: ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour.
The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them, chasing them from outside the gate as far as Shebarim and killing them on the slope. The hearts of the people melted and turned to water.