I can hardly see; my eyes are so swollen from the weeping caused by my enemies.

my eyes are weak from suffering. LORD, every day I call to you and lift my hands to you in prayer.

My grief has almost made me blind; my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.

For help that never came, we looked until we could look no longer. We kept waiting for help from a nation that had none to give.

We are sick at our very hearts and can hardly see through our tears,

LORD, don't be angry and rebuke me! Don't punish me in your anger!

I am worn out, O LORD; have pity on me! Give me strength; I am completely exhausted

My strength is gone, gone like water spilled on the ground. All my bones are out of joint; my heart is like melted wax.

My throat is as dry as dust, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have left me for dead in the dust.

O LORD, don't punish me in your anger!

Because of your anger, I am in great pain; my whole body is diseased because of my sins.

Because I have been foolish, my sores stink and rot.

I am burning with fever and I am near death.

O Lord, you know what I long for; you hear all my groans.

We fall crushed to the ground; we lie defeated in the dust.

O God, you have made me suffer all day long; every morning you have punished me.

My mind and my body may grow weak, but God is my strength; he is all I ever need.

So many troubles have fallen on me that I am close to death.

I am abandoned among the dead; I am like the slain lying in their graves, those you have forgotten completely, who are beyond your help.

My life is disappearing like smoke; my body is burning like fire.

I groan aloud; I am nothing but skin and bones.

Some were living in gloom and darkness, prisoners suffering in chains,

God corrects us by sending sickness and filling our bodies with pain.

Their bodies waste away to nothing; you can see all their bones;