14. He I was a derision to all my people and their song every day.
15. He He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.
16. Vau He has broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
17. Vau My soul removed itself far from peace; I forgot about good.
18. Vau And I said, My strength and my hope of the Lord is perished.
19. Zain Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20. Zain My soul shall have them still in remembrance because it is humbled in me.
21. Zain This shall go down into my heart; therefore I shall wait.
22. Chet It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed because his mercies never diminish.
23. Chet They are new every morning; great is thy faith.
24. Chet The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore I will wait for him.
25. Teth The Lord is good unto those that wait in him, to the soul that seeks him.
26. Teth It is good to wait quietly in the salvation of the Lord.
27. Teth It is good for the man if he bears the yoke from his youth.
28. Jod He shall sit alone and keep silence because he has borne it upon him.
29. Jod He shall put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
30. Jod He shall turn his cheek unto him that smites him; he shall be filled with reproach.
31. Caph For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
32. Caph But though he causes grief, yet he will also have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33. Caph For he does not afflict nor grieve the sons of men from his heart.