12. My lifetime is plucked upand taken from me like a shepherd’s tent.My life is shriveled like woven cloth;God cuts me off from the loom.Between daybreak and nightfallyou carry out your verdict against me.
13. I cried out until morning:"Like a lion God crushes all my bones.Between daybreak and nightfallyou carry out your verdict against me.
14. Like a swallow I chirp;I moan like a dove.My eyes have grown weary looking to heaven.Lord, I’m overwhelmed; support me!"
15. What can I say?God has spoken to me;he himself has acted.I will wander my whole lifewith a bitter spirit.
16. The Lord Most High is the one who gives life to every heart,who gives life to the spirit!
17. Look, he indeed exchanged my bitterness for wholeness.You yourself have spared my whole beingfrom the pit of destruction,because you have cast all my sinsbehind your back.
18. The underworld can’t thank you,nor can death praise you;those who go down to the pitcan’t hope for your faithfulness.
19. The living, the living can thank you, as I do today.Parents will tell children about your faithfulness.
20. The Lord has truly saved me,and we will make music at the Lord’s house all the days of our lives.