²⁶ Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
    when I looked for light, then came darkness.^(A)

¹⁵ We hoped for peace^(A)
    but no good has come,
for a time of healing
    but there is only terror.^(B)

¹⁹ Have you rejected Judah completely?^(A)
    Do you despise Zion?
Why have you afflicted us
    so that we cannot be healed?^(B)
We hoped for peace
    but no good has come,
for a time of healing
    but there is only terror.^(C)

²⁵ What I feared has come upon me;
    what I dreaded^(A) has happened to me.^(B)
26 I have no peace,^(C) no quietness;
    I have no rest,^(D) but only turmoil.”^(E)

¹⁰ Who among you fears^(A) the Lord
    and obeys^(B) the word of his servant?^(C)
Let the one who walks in the dark,
    who has no light,^(D)
trust^(E) in the name of the Lord
    and rely on their God.

¹⁸ Why is my pain unending
    and my wound grievous and incurable?^(A)
You are to me like a deceptive brook,
    like a spring that fails.^(B)

¹¹ Light shines^[a](A) on the righteous^(B)
    and joy on the upright in heart.^(C)

¹⁸ “I thought, ‘I will die in my own house,
    my days as numerous as the grains of sand.^(A)