When I kept silent about my sin, my body became weak because I groaned all day long.

我闭口不认罪的时候，因终日唉哼而骨头枯干。

我闭口不认罪的时候，因终日呻吟而骨头枯干。

我闭口不认罪的时候，因终日呻吟而骨头枯干。

我默然不语、拒绝认罪的时候，就因整日哀叹而身心疲惫。

我闭口不认罪的时候，就整天唉哼，以致骨头衰残。

我保持沉默、不认罪的时候，就因终日哀号而骨头衰朽；

我閉口不認罪的時候，因終日唉哼而骨頭枯乾。

我閉口不認罪的時候，因終日呻吟而骨頭枯乾。

我閉口不認罪的時候，因終日呻吟而骨頭枯乾。

我默然不語、拒絕認罪的時候，就因整日哀歎而身心疲憊。

我閉口不認罪的時候，就整天唉哼，以致骨頭衰殘。

我閉口不認罪時，我的骨頭都因終日哀哼而磨損。

我保持沉默、不認罪的時候，就因終日哀號而骨頭衰朽；

我緘默時、終日欷歔、我骨衰殘兮、

我不言己罪、終日欷歔、筋骨漸衰、

我緘默未認己罪、終日哀號、筋骨衰殘、

我昔有罪。不肯自招。呻吟不輟。生趣日消。

When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long.

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long.

When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

I am weak and feel as if I’ve been broken in pieces. I groan because of the great pain in my heart.

My God, my God, why have you deserted me? Why do you seem so far away when I need you to save me? Why do you seem so far away that you can’t hear my groans?

Because of your anger, my whole body is sick. Because of my sin, I’m not healthy.

They do not cry out to me from their hearts. Instead, they just lie on their beds and sob. They cut themselves when they pray to their gods for grain and fresh wine. But they turn away from me.

My skin grows black and peels. My body burns with fever.

I call out and cry for help. But he won’t listen to me when I pray.

Anyone who hides their sins doesn’t succeed. But anyone who admits their sins and gives them up finds mercy.

Let me hear you say,“ Your sins are forgiven.” That will bring me joy and gladness. Let the body you have broken be glad.

Your children have fainted. They lie helpless at every street corner. They are like antelope that have been caught in a net. They have felt the full force of the Lord’ s great anger. Jerusalem, your God had to warn them strongly.

Lord, have mercy on me. I’m in deep trouble. I’m so sad I can hardly see. My whole body grows weak with sadness.Pain has taken over my life. My years are spent in groaning. I have no strength because I’m hurting so much. My body is getting weaker and weaker.

Sighs have become my food every day. Groans pour out of me like water.

At night my bones hurt. My aches and pains never stop.

David went and got the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan. He got them from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead. They had stolen their bodies from the main street in Beth Shan. That’s where the Philistines had hung their bodies up on the city wall. They had done it after they struck Saul down on Mount Gilboa.David brought the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from Jabesh Gilead. The bones of the seven males who had been killed and put out in the open were also gathered up.The bones of Saul and his son Jonathan were buried in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. The tomb was at Zela in the territory of Benjamin. Everything the king commanded was done. After that, God answered prayer and blessed the land.

Then they got the bones of Saul and his sons and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh. They didn’t eat anything for seven days.

Lord, have mercy on me. I’m so weak. Lord, heal me. My body is full of pain.

He went to work for someone who lived in that country. That person sent the son to the fields to feed the pigs.The son wanted to fill his stomach with the food the pigs were eating. But no one gave him anything.

Then the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking in the garden. It was during the coolest time of the day. They hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.But the Lord God called out to the man.“ Where are you?” he asked.“ I heard you in the garden,” the man answered.“ I was afraid, because I was naked. So I hid.”The Lord God said,“ Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten fruit from the tree I commanded you not to eat from?”The man said,“ It’s the fault of the woman you put here with me. She gave me some fruit from the tree. And I ate it.”Then the Lord God said to the woman,“ What have you done?” The woman said,“ The serpent tricked me. That’s why I ate the fruit.”So the Lord God spoke to the serpent. He said,“ Because you have done this,“ You are set apart from all livestock and all wild animals. I am putting a curse on you. You will crawl on your belly. You will eat dust all the days of your life.I will make you and the woman hate each other. Your children and her children will be enemies. Her son will crush your head. And you will bite his heel.”The Lord God said to the woman,“ I will increase your pain when you give birth. You will be in great pain when you have children. You will long for your husband. And he will rule over you.”The Lord God said to Adam,“ You listened to your wife’s suggestion. You ate fruit from the tree I warned you about. I said,‘ You must not eat its fruit.’“ So I am putting a curse on the ground because of what you did. All the days of your life you will have to work hard. It will be painful for you to get food from the ground.You will eat plants from the field, even though the ground produces thorns and prickly weeds.You will have to work hard and sweat a lot to produce the food you eat. You were made out of the ground. You will return to it when you die. You are dust, and you will return to dust.”

“ I have heard the groans of Ephraim’s people. They say,‘ You corrected us like a calf you were training. And we have been trained. Bring us back to you, and we will come back. You are the Lord our God.After we wandered away from you, we turned away from our sins. After we learned our lesson, we beat our chests in sorrow. We were full of shame. What we did when we were young brought dishonor on us.’

He has worn out my body. He has broken my bones.

After Judah’s people had suffered greatly, they were taken away as prisoners. Now they live among the nations. They can’t find any place to rest. All those who were chasing them have caught up with them. And they can’t get away.

All of us growl like hungry bears. We sound like doves as we mourn. We want the Lord to do what is fair and save us. But he doesn’t do it. We long for him to set us free. But the time for that seems far away.

When her time of sadness was over, David had her brought to his house. She became his wife. And she had a son by him. But the Lord wasn’t pleased with what David had done.The Lord sent the prophet Nathan to David. When Nathan came to him, he said,“ Two men lived in the same town. One was rich. The other was poor.The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle.But all the poor man had was one little female lamb. He had bought it. He raised it. It grew up with him and his children. It shared his food. It drank from his cup. It even slept in his arms. It was just like a daughter to him.“ One day a traveler came to the rich man. The rich man wanted to prepare a meal for him. But he didn’t want to kill one of his own sheep or cattle. Instead, he took the little female lamb that belonged to the poor man. Then the rich man cooked it for the traveler who had come to him.”David was very angry with the rich man. He said to Nathan,“ The man who did this must die! And that’s just as sure as the Lord is alive.The man must pay back four times as much as that lamb was worth. How could he do such a thing? And he wasn’t even sorry he had done it.”Then Nathan said to David,“ You are the man! The Lord, the God of Israel, says,‘ I anointed you king over Israel. I saved you from Saul.I gave you everything that belonged to your master Saul. I even put his wives into your arms. I made you king over all the people of Israel and Judah. And if all of that had not been enough for you, I would have given you even more.Why did you turn your back on what I told you to do? You did what is evil in my sight. You made sure that Uriah, the Hittite, would be killed in battle. You took his wife to be your own. You let the men of Ammon kill him with their swords.So time after time members of your own royal house will be killed with swords. That’s because you turned your back on me. You took the wife of Uriah, the Hittite, to be your own.’“ The Lord also says,‘ I am going to bring trouble on you. It will come from your own family. I will take your wives away. Your own eyes will see it. I will give your wives to a man who is close to you. He will sleep with them in the middle of the day.You committed your sins in secret. But I will make sure that the man commits his sin in the middle of the day. Everyone in Israel will see it.’ ”

My days are disappearing like smoke. My body burns like glowing coals.My strength has dried up like grass. I even forget to eat my food.I groan out loud because of my suffering. I’m nothing but skin and bones.

I was very angry with them. They always longed for more and more of everything. So I punished them for that sin. I turned my face away from them because I was angry. But they kept on wanting their own way.