⁸ You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness;
    my gauntness^(A) rises up and testifies against me.^(B)

⁸ Let me hear joy and gladness;^(A)
    let the bones^(B) you have crushed rejoice.

¹³ I waited patiently^(A) till dawn,
    but like a lion he broke^(B) all my bones;^(C)
    day and night^(D) you made an end of me.

¹⁷ “Israel is a scattered flock^(A)
    that lions^(B) have chased away.
The first to devour^(C) them
    was the king^(D) of Assyria;
the last to crush their bones^(E)
    was Nebuchadnezzar^(F) king^(G) of Babylon.”