7. He has hedged me in, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
8. Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
9. He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.
10. He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
11. He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate.
12. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13. He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my heart.
14. I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
15. He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.
16. He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.
17. And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.
18. And I said, My strength and my hope has perished from the LORD:
19. Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20. My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22. It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23. They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.
24. The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.