For Your weapons are fixed in me, and You have pressed Your hand heavily upon me.

For my transgressions have gone over my head; they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.

I have been wretched and bowed down continually; I went with a mourning countenance all the day.

I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly; I have roared for the groaning of my heart.

Remove Your scourge from me; I have fainted by reason of the strength of Your hand.

You chasten man with rebukes for iniquity, and You make his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.

And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon Azotus, and He brought evil upon them, and it burst out upon them into the ships, and rats sprang up in the midst of their country, and there was a great and indiscriminate mortality in the city.

And the men of Azotus saw that it was so, and they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us, for His hand is heavy upon us, and upon Dagon our god.

And it came to pass after it went about to Gath, that the hand of the Lord came upon the city, and [there was] very great confusion. And He struck the men of the city, [both] small and great, and struck them in their secret parts. And the Gittites made for themselves images of tumors.

So they sent and gathered the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it lodge in its place; and let it not slay us and our people.

And you shall see, if it shall go the way of its coasts along by Beth Shemesh, He has brought upon us this great affliction; and if not, then shall we know that His hand has not touched us, and this has happened to us by chance.

[ 16:22] Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even as the son of man with his neighbor!

My fear shall not terrify you, neither shall my hand be heavy upon you.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and My tongue is glued to My throat; and You have brought Me down to the dust of death.

In the morning let it flower, and pass away; in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up.

For we have perished in Your anger, and in Your wrath we have been troubled.

For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.

I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.

And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.

HETH. Their countenance has become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they have become as a stick.

Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.