23. I am gone like the shadow when it lengthens and declines; I toss up and down and am shaken off as the locust.
24. My knees are weak and totter from fasting; and my body is gaunt and has no fatness.
25. I have become also a reproach and a taunt to others; when they see me, they shake their heads. [Matt. 26:39.]
26. Help me, O Lord my God; O save me according to Your mercy and loving-kindness!–
27. That they may know that this is Your hand, that You, Lord, have done it.