Lamentations 3:15-25

New International Version

¹⁵ He has filled me with bitter herbs
    and given me gall to drink.^(A)

¹⁶ He has broken my teeth with gravel;^(B)
    he has trampled me in the dust.^(C)
17 I have been deprived of peace;
    I have forgotten what prosperity is.
¹⁸ So I say, “My splendor is gone
    and all that I had hoped from the Lord.”^(D)

¹⁹ I remember my affliction and my wandering,
    the bitterness^(E) and the gall.^(F)
20 I well remember them,
    and my soul is downcast^(G) within me.^(H)
21 Yet this I call to mind
    and therefore I have hope:

²² Because of the Lord’s great love^(I) we are not consumed,^(J)
    for his compassions never fail.^(K)
23 They are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.^(L)
24 I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;^(M)
    therefore I will wait for him.”

²⁵ The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,
    to the one who seeks him;^(N)