18 So I say, ‘My splendour is goneand 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 mindand 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.’