da.lal describes becoming greatly weakened or reduced, whether of people, a people, bodily strength, waters, or prosperity.

The verb most often depicts people or a people brought into a low, weakened condition amid oppression, distress, or confinement. It also describes decline in things such as Jacob's glory, river channels, and the legs of the lame.

1. Being brought low or weakened · dominant

   In Judges 6:6, the sequential imperfect describes Israel's condition under Midian before the people cry out to the LORD; the APB renders that clause “Israel languished much.” Perfect forms describe those “forgotten by the foot” in Job 28:4, the speaker's distressed condition in Psalm 116:6 and Psalm 142:7, and the community's low state in Psalm 79:8; Isaiah 38:14 places the plural form with failing eyes under oppression.

   Judges 6:6Job 28:4Psalm 116:6Psalm 142:7Psalm 79:8Isaiah 38:14
2. Diminishing or failing condition · common

   In Isaiah 17:4, the imperfect is predicated of Jacob's glory in a clause also mentioning the starvation of flesh. In Isaiah 19:6, the plural perfect occurs of rivers before the APB says they “dry up,” while Proverbs 26:7 uses a plural perfect in the comparison involving the legs of the lame, rendered “useless.”

   Isaiah 17:4Isaiah 19:6Proverbs 26:7

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the clauses with “languish,” “brought low,” “dry up,” and “useless.” Because its English is a whole-verse translation, these renderings show the verse contexts rather than fixed English equivalents for every occurrence.