18. And I say, Perished is my strength and my expectation from the Lord.
19. [O Lord] remember [earnestly] my affliction and my misery, my wandering and my outcast state, the wormwood and the gall.
20. My soul has them continually in remembrance and is bowed down within me.
21. But this I recall and therefore have I hope and expectation:
22. It is because of the Lord's mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed, because His [tender] compassions fail not. [Mal. 3:6.]
23. They are new every morning; great and abundant is Your stability and faithfulness. [Isa. 33:2.]
24. The Lord is my portion or share, says my living being (my inner self); therefore will I hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him. [Num. 18:20.]
25. The Lord is good to those who wait hopefully and expectantly for Him, to those who seek Him [inquire of and for Him and require Him by right of necessity and on the authority of God's word].