Holy Scripture
Psalms 101:5
A church father on this verse
“And Jezebel was able to injure the most religious Naboth by her false accusations; but then it was the wicked and apostate Ahab who listened to her. But the most holy David, whose example you ought to follow, as all pray that you may, does not favor such people but was apt to turn away from them and avoid them, as rag…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; For I have forgotten to eat my bread.
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3Turn not away thy face from me: In the day when I am afflicted, incline thine ear to me: In the day when I shall call upon thee, speedily hear me.
4For my days have vanished like smoke, And my bones have been parched like a stick.
— Psalms 101:5 —
6By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bone has cloven to my flesh.
7I have become like a pelican of the wilderness;