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;
Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.
God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;
and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six men of them, and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim, and slew them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, for this purpose I have come to this hour.
Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before fire, let the wicked perish before God!
I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;
“And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.
Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”
Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against me.
They open wide their mouths against me; they say, “Aha, Aha! our eyes have seen it!”
“All our enemies rail against us;