## my bones were wasting away ##

AT: "I was wasting away" or "I was getting weaker" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])

## all day long ##

AT: "continually" or "all the time" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

## day and night ##

AT: "all the time" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism]])

## your hand was heavy upon me ##

AT: "you made me suffer heavily" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

## My strength withered as in summer drought ##

David's strength is compared to a small, green plants that turns brown and crumbles in the dry season. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])

## Selah ##

See how you translated this in [Psalms 3:1](../003/001.md).