Miserable self-portrait from Christine's sketchbook

'Ploughmen have ploughed my back
and made their furrows long.' - Psalm 129, a song of ascents, verse 3

'Our daughters will be like pillars
carved to adorn a palace.' - Psalm 143, of David, verse 12

'The Lord upholds all those who fall
and lifts up all who are bowed down.' - Psalm 145, a psalm of praise, of David, verse 14

'A longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul' - Proverbs 13 verse 19

'The wise woman builds her house,
but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.'
- Proverbs 14 verse 1

'The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,
he is the one you are to fear,
he is the one you are to dread,
and he will be a sanctuary' - Isaiah 8 verse 13 & 14