¹⁹ Remember mine affliction and my ^[a]misery, the wormwood and the gall.
²⁰ My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
²¹ This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
²² It is of Jehovah’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
²³ They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
²⁴ Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
²⁵ Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
²⁶ It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
²⁷ It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
^28 [b]Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.
²⁹ Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
³⁰ Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.
³¹ For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
³² For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
³³ For he doth not afflict ^[c]willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
³⁴ To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
³⁵ To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
³⁶ To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord ^[d]approveth not.
³⁷ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
³⁸ Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
³⁹ Wherefore doth a living man complain, ^[e]a man for the punishment of his sins?

⁴⁰ Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
⁴² We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.
⁴³ Thou hast ^[f]covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
⁴⁴ Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
⁴⁵ Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
⁴⁶ All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
⁴⁷ Fear and the pit are come upon us, ^[g]devastation and destruction.
⁴⁸ Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
⁴⁹ Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
⁵⁰ Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.
⁵¹ Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
⁵² They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.
⁵³ They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
⁵⁴ Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

⁵⁵ I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.
⁵⁶ Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
⁵⁷ Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.
⁵⁸ O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
⁵⁹ O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.
⁶⁰ Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
⁶¹ Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,
⁶² The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
⁶³ Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
⁶⁴ Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.
⁶⁵ Thou wilt give them ^[h]hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.
⁶⁶ Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.