"When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me."
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When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
My refreshing for me `is' sorrow, For me my heart `is' sick.