¹⁸ He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.

¹⁹ How long will you not look away from me, Nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

¹¹ All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

¹⁸ I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

³ Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

¹⁶ Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

¹⁷ They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

¹⁸ You have put lover and friend far from me, And my friends into darkness.

⁷ Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

¹³ Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go away, and be no more."

² "As God lives, who has taken away my right, The Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

²⁰ "Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul,