When I lie down, I say, ‘When am I going to rise, and the night be ended?’ For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn.
They would turn night into day, saying that light is near, in the presence of darkness!
My bones have been pierced in me at night, and my gnawings never lie down.
I have gone like a lengthening shadow, I have been driven away like a locust.
My being looks to יהוה More than those watching for morning, watching for morning.
I have grown weary with my groaning; Every night I flood my bed; I drench my couch with my tears.
You ceased the watches of my eyes, I was too troubled to speak.
“O you afflicted one, tossed with storm, and not comforted, see, I am setting your stones in antimony, and shall lay your foundations with sapphires,
“In the morning you say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at evening you say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear of your heart, with which you fear, and because of the sight which your eyes see.