15. He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.
16. He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.
17. And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.
18. And I said, My strength and my hope has perished from the LORD:
19. Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20. My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22. It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.