8. Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
9. He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
10. Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,
11. he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.
12. He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
13. He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.
14. I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
15. He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.
16. He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.
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.”
19. I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.
20. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
21. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
22. Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
23. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
24. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”
25. The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;