David wrote "I am pining away" (Ps 6:2). It is a downhill process. "My soul is greatly dismayed" (:3). In other words it was deeply troubled, which took degradation to get there. Furthermore he said "my spirit is overwhelmed within me" (Ps 143:4) so that "my spirit fails" (:7). The destination becomes being "like those who go down to the pit" (:7). Is the expression of the predicament just an emotional response? "Who will set me free?" (Ro 7:24). I have "sorrow in my heart all the day" (Ps 13:2). "When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long" (32:3). "They have surrounded me like water all day long" (88:17). These "terrors have destroyed me" (:16). The circumstances take their toll and the emotional expressions measure how serious it has become. "My body wasted away from crying" (32:3) and "my bones are dismayed" (6:2). Physical manifestations reflect the state of the inner person. "My eye weeps to God" (Jb 16:20). "I have cried out by day and in the night before you" (Ps 88:1 ). "My eye has wasted away because of affliction" (:9). "My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see" (40:2). "I was afflicted and about to die from my youth on" (88:15). "I am like those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength" (:4). "I am afflicted and needy" (86:1). Even "youth grow weary and tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly" (Is 40:30). "My strength is dried up like a potsherd" (Ps 22:15). But fortunately "the Lord is my strength" (28:7) and "He gives strength to the weary and to him who lacks might He increases power" (Is 40:29).