The petition to have mercy because the speaker is weak and asks God to heal emphasizes physical and psychological deterioration that the speaker attributes to God's judgment or allows as consequence of sin. The weakness language suggests comprehensive diminishment bodily, emotional, spiritual that makes the speaker unable to sustain himself apart from divine intervention. The equation of sin's consequence with physical disease establishes the ancient understanding that spiritual transgression manifests as bodily distress, though later reflection complicates this mechanistic view. This verse articulates the embodied nature of the penitent's distress, suggesting that true contrition affects the whole person, body and soul.

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