Psalms 102:3-11

3My life is quickly disappearing, like smoke from a fire. My bones hurt very much, as if they were burning in an oven.

4I am very weak and upset, like dry grass that will soon die. I even forget to eat my food.

5I cry aloud with pain, so that I am just skin and bones.

6I am like a wild bird in the desert. I am like an owl in the wilderness.

7I am awake in the night, like a bird that sits alone on the roof.

8All day my enemies insult me. They laugh at me and they use my name as a curse.

9Because you are so angry with me, I eat ashes as my food. My tears drop into the water that I drink. It seems that you have picked me up, and then you have thrown me away.

11My days are disappearing, like a shadow in the evening. Like dry grass, I will soon die.