^{4 Ref} My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

^{5 Ref} By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

^{6 Ref} I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

^{7 Ref} I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.

^{8 Ref} Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.

^{9 Ref} For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,