¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my misery,
    the wormwood and the bitterness.
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.
²⁹ Let him put his mouth in the dust,
    if it is so that there may be hope.
³⁰ Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.
    Let him be filled full of reproach.

³¹ For the Lord will not cast off forever.
³²     For though he causes grief,
    yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
³³ For he does not afflict willingly,
    nor grieve the children of men.

³⁴ To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
³⁵     to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
³⁶     to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

³⁷ Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,
    when the Lord doesn’t command it?
³⁸ Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
³⁹     Why does a living man complain,
    a man for the punishment of his sins?

⁴⁰ Let us search and try our ways,
    and turn again to Yahweh.
⁴¹ Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God^[a] in the heavens.
⁴²     “We have transgressed and have rebelled.
    You have not pardoned.

⁴³ “You have covered us with anger and pursued us.
    You have killed.
    You have not pitied.
⁴⁴ You have covered yourself with a cloud,
    so that no prayer can pass through.
⁴⁵ You have made us an off-scouring and refuse
    in the middle of the peoples.

⁴⁶ “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
⁴⁷     Terror and the pit have come on us,
    devastation and destruction.”

⁴⁸ My eye runs down with streams of water,
    for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
⁴⁹ My eye pours down
    and doesn’t cease,
    without any intermission,
⁵⁰ until Yahweh looks down,
    and sees from heaven.
⁵¹ My eye affects my soul,
    because of all the daughters of my city.

⁵² They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,
    those who are my enemies without cause.
⁵³ They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
    and have cast a stone on me.
⁵⁴ Waters flowed over my head.
    I said, “I am cut off.”

⁵⁵ I called on your name, Yahweh,
    out of the lowest dungeon.
⁵⁶ You heard my voice:
    “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,
    and my cry.”

⁵⁷ You came near in the day that I called on you.
    You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

⁵⁸ Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.
    You have redeemed my life.
⁵⁹ Yahweh, you have seen my wrong.
    Judge my cause.
⁶⁰ You have seen all their vengeance
    and all their plans against me.

⁶¹ You have heard their reproach, Yahweh,
    and all their plans against me,
⁶² the lips of those that rose up against me,
    and their plots against me all day long.
⁶³ You see their sitting down and their rising up.
    I am their song.

⁶⁴ You will pay them back, Yahweh,
    according to the work of their hands.
⁶⁵ You will give them hardness of heart,
    your curse to them.
⁶⁶ You will pursue them in anger,
    and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.