15 He has filled me with bitterness,He has sated me with wormwood.
16 He has made my teeth grind on gravel,and covered me with ashes.
17 My soul is bereft of peace;I have forgotten prosperity.
18 So I say, “My strength and my hopefrom the Lord have perished.”
19 Remember my affliction and my misery,the wormwood and the gall.
20 Surely my soul remembersand is humbled within me.
21 But this I call to mind,and therefore I have hope: