⁵ My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.

³ When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

⁷ For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.

⁵ O God, you see how foolish I am; and my wrongdoing is clear to you.

⁵ Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

⁶ The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

²² Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?