Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

My flesh and my heart faileth: {but} God {is} the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. {strength: Heb. rock}

For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members {are} as a shadow. {my members: or, my thoughts}

He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong {pain}:

For this our heart is faint; for these {things} our eyes are dim.

Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. {uttered: Heb. opened}

[To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.] O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. {chief...: or, overseer} {Sheminith: or, the eighth}

For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. {chastened: Heb. my chastisement was}

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, {being} bound in affliction and iron;

[A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.] O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. {out of...: or, sundered}

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation {that} could not save {us}.

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}

[To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.] Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. {Michtam...: or, A golden Psalm of David}

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

{There is} no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither {is there any} rest in my bones because of my sin. {rest: Heb. peace, or, health}

My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids {is} the shadow of death;

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members {are} as a shadow. {my members: or, my thoughts}

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. {swoon: or, faint}

And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

For this our heart is faint; for these {things} our eyes are dim.

Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.