⁸ As if to prove I have sinned, you’ve reduced me to skin and bones.
    My gaunt flesh testifies against me.

¹⁷ Again and again you witness against me.
    You pour out your growing anger on me
    and bring fresh armies against me.

²⁰ I have been reduced to skin and bones
    and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.

¹⁶ We hear songs of praise from the ends of the earth,
    songs that give glory to the Righteous One!

But my heart is heavy with grief.
    Weep for me, for I wither away.
Deceit still prevails,
    and treachery is everywhere.

¹⁶ Therefore, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
    will send a plague among Assyria’s proud troops,
    and a flaming fire will consume its glory.

²⁴ My knees are weak from fasting,
    and I am skin and bones.

¹⁵ So he gave them what they asked for,
    but he sent a plague along with it.