^{4 Ref} My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

^{5 Ref} Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

^{6 Ref} I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.

^{7 Ref} I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.

^{8 Ref} My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

^{9 Ref} I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping: