¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!

⁵ He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.

¹⁵ He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me `with' wormwood.

¹⁵ Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them -- this people -- to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall,

³² `And now, O our God -- God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness -- let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day;

⁷ Remember Thou that my life `is' a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.

⁴⁷ Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

⁵⁰ Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Thy servants, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples,

¹ A Song of the Ascents. Remember, Jehovah, for David, all his afflictions.