You held my eyelids open; I was troubled and could not speak.

你叫我不能闭眼；我烦乱不安，甚至不能说话。

你使我不能闭眼；我心烦乱，甚至不能说话。

你使我不能闭眼；我心烦乱，甚至不能说话。

你使我无法合眼，我心乱如麻，默然无语。

你使我不能合眼，我烦躁不安，连话也说不出来。

你使我不能合眼；我烦乱不安，甚至不能说话。

你叫我不能閉眼；我煩亂不安，甚至不能說話。

你使我不能閉眼；我心煩亂，甚至不能說話。

你使我不能閉眼；我心煩亂，甚至不能說話。

你使我無法合眼，我心亂如麻，默然無語。

你使我不能合眼，我煩躁不安，連話也說不出來。

你使我眼巴巴睡不着覺；我煩亂不安，連話都說不出。

你使我不能合眼；我煩亂不安，甚至不能說話。

爾使我目不交睫、煩擾而不能言兮、

因爾譴責、弗能偃息、遘此重艱、難以啟齒兮、

主使我不能合睫、我心煩亂不安、不能語言、

思主令人瘦。心如困宿醒。

You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak.

You kept me from going to sleep. I was so troubled I couldn’t speak.

You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

You don’t let me sleep. I am too distressed even to pray!

You have kept me from closing my eyes; I am troubled and cannot speak.

You have held my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

You have kept me from closing my eyes; I am troubled and cannot speak.

Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

If I say,“ My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,”then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.

But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.

Throughout that night the king was unable to sleep, so he asked for the book containing the historical records to be brought. As the records were being read in the king’s presence,

Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.