He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh {them} shall have mercy.

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

{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}

[To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? {why art thou so} far from helping me, {and from} the words of my roaring? {Aijeleth...: or, the hind of the morning} {helping...: Heb. my salvation}

Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, {and} they rebel against me.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, {yea}, my soul and my belly.

Make me to hear joy and gladness; {that} the bones {which} thou hast broken may rejoice.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I {am} weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself {thus}; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed {to the yoke}: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou {art} the LORD my God.

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. {frowardly: Heb. turning away}

We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but {there is} none; for salvation, {but} it is far off from us.

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD. {displeased: Heb. was evil in the eyes of}

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. {because of great...: Heb. for the greatness of servitude}

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

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. {cool: Heb. wind}

And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

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

And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}

And they took their bones, and buried {them} under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh {them} shall have mercy.

A merry heart doeth good {like} a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. {like: or, to}

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Blessed {are} they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep {me} from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested. {Oh...: Heb. If thou wilt, etc} {keep...: Heb. do me}

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. {gat...: Heb. found me}

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I {am} weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. {skin: or, flesh}

[To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? {why art thou so} far from helping me, {and from} the words of my roaring? {Aijeleth...: or, the hind of the morning} {helping...: Heb. my salvation}

All my bones shall say, LORD, who {is} like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

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

My wounds stink {and} are corrupt because of my foolishness.

What prayer and supplication soever be {made} by any man, {or} by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he {was} God.

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. {and to: or, as to}

{Yet} his meat in his bowels is turned, {it is} the gall of asps within him.

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones {that} were not seen stick out.

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

And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but {there is} none; for salvation, {but} it is far off from us.

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

And the Lord {said} unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for {one} called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? {the body...: or, this body of death}