18. I said, “My strength has perished,along with my expectation from the Lord.”
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 the Lord’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. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul.“Therefore I will hope in him.”
25. The Lord is good to those who wait for him,to the soul who seeks him.
26. It is good that a man should hopeand quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
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.