⁸ Record my misery;
    list my tears on your scroll^[a](A)—
    are they not in your record?^(B)

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained^(A) for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

²³ “Oh, that my words were recorded,
    that they were written on a scroll,^(A)
24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool^(B) on^[a] lead,
    or engraved in rock forever!^(C)