despairing (literally melting, i.e. failing, collapsing)
Strong's H4523מָס: fainting, i.e. (figuratively) disconsolate KJV:is afflicted.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 1223: מָסַסmāsas — dissolve, melt; like the melting; faint, grow fearful, wasted, consumptive; cause to melt; liquefy, waste; discourage, be loosed, refuse