“On the first occasion we nearly perished of hunger and thirst while we were wandering about in the desert [without food] for five days and five nights. On the second occasion we traveled over savage, rugged mountains until our feet were pierced by the stones, and we suffered very great pain and very nearly had to yiel…”
Jerome, 5th c. — THE HISTORIES OF THE MONKS 20
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2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
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1Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
— Psalms 69:2 —
3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.