13. He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
14. I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
15. He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.
16. He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
17. You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
18. I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
19. Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20. My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
21. This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
22. It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.
23. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
24. “Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
25. Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
26. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
27. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28. Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.