Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. {revolt...: Heb. increase revolt}

{Is there} no balm in Gilead; {is there} no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? {recovered: Heb. gone up?}

O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. {sins: Heb. guiltiness}

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

For my loins are filled with a loathsome {disease}: and {there is} no soundness in my flesh.

They are all gone aside, they are {all} together become filthy: {there is} none that doeth good, no, not one. {filthy: Heb. stinking}

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. {sins: Heb. guiltiness}

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

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

By the great force {of my disease} is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.