You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
When 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 choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.
For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.
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