16. And He has broken my teeth with gravel, He has covered me with ashes.
17. And You have removed my being far from peace, I have forgotten goodness.
18. And I said, “My strength and my expectancy Have perished from יהוה.”
19. Remember my affliction and my anguish, The wormwood and the gall.
20. Your being indeed remembers And bows down upon me.
21. This I recall to my mind, therefore I wait:
22. The kindnesses of יהוה! For we have not been consumed, For His compassions have not ended.
23. They are new every morning, Great is Your trustworthiness.
24. “יהוה is my Portion,” says my being, “Therefore I wait for Him!”
25. יהוה is good to those waiting for Him, To the being who seeks Him.
26. It is good – both to wait and to be silent, For the deliverance of יהוה.
27. It is good for a man to bear a yoke in his youth.
28. Let him sit alone and be silent, Because He has laid it on him.
29. Let him put his mouth in the dust, There might yet be expectancy.