Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in [me]. Pause.

A glad heart promotes health, but the bones of a sorrowful man dry up.

I am weary [of] crying, my throat has become hoarse; my eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.

They gave [me] also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

And they that heard me blessed me, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

DALETH. The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: the little children ask for bread, and there is none to break it for them.

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things already had been fulfilled, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, "I thirst!"

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to You? Or shall it declare Your truth?

But when You have turned away Your face, they shall be troubled; You will take away their breath, and they shall fail, and return to their dust.

[ 3:20] In the sweat of your face shall you eat your bread until you return to the ground out of which you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

And Abraham answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am [but] dust and ashes.

Why have You not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? But now I shall depart to the earth, and in the morning I am no more.

Remember that You have made me as clay, and You turn me again into dust.

all flesh would die together, and every mortal would return to the earth, from where he was formed.

Therefore He shall inherit many, and He shall divide the spoils of the mighty; because His soul was delivered to death; and He was numbered among the transgressors; and He bore the sins of many, and was delivered up because of their transgressions.

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting shame.

But Jesus, again crying out with a loud voice, released His spirit.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,