16. He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17. And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.
18. And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.
19. Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
20. My soul hath them constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21. --This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.
22. It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;
23. they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
24. Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25. Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
26. It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.
27. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth: