Holy Scripture
Psalms 30:11
A church father on this verse
“The joy of God is not found in just any soul but, if someone has mourned much and deeply his own sin with loud lamentations and continual weepings, as if he were bewailing his own death, the mourning of such a one is turned into joy.… The mourning garment, which he put on when bewailing his sin, is torn, and the tunic…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
11For my life is spent with grief, And my years with groanings: My strength has been weakened through poverty, And my bones are troubled.
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9And thou hast not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: Thou hast set my feet in a wide place.
10Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: My eye is troubled with indignation, My soul and my belly.
— Psalms 30:11 —
12I became a reproach among all mine enemies, But exceedingly so to my neighbors, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that saw me without fled from me.
13I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.