3. (4) For my yamim are consumed like ashan (smoke), and my atzmot burn like a furnace.
4. (5) My lev is struck, and withered like esev; so that I forget to eat my lechem.
5. (6) By reason of the voice of my groaning my atzmot have deveykus to my basar.
6. (7) I am like a bird of the midbar; I am like an owl of the desert.