8. Even when I cry and shout for help, He shuts out my prayer.
9. He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
10. He is to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion [hiding] in secret places.
11. He has turned me off my ways and pulled me in pieces; He has made me desolate.
12. He has bent His bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13. He has caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my heart [the seat of my affections and desires].
14. I have become a derision to all my people, and [the subject of] their singsong all the day.
15. He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink to excess and until drunken with wormwood [bitterness].
16. He has also broken my teeth with gravel (stones); He has covered me with ashes.
17. And You have bereaved my soul and cast it off far from peace; I have forgotten what good and happiness are.
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: