Great Is Your Faithfulness

¹kI am the man who has seen affliction

under the lrod of his wrath;

²he has driven and brought me

minto darkness without any light;

³surely against me he turns his hand

again and again the whole day long.

⁴He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;

nhe has broken my bones;

⁵ohe has besieged and enveloped me

with pbitterness and tribulation;

⁶qhe has made me dwell in darkness

like the dead of long ago.

⁷rHe has walled me about so that sI cannot escape;

he has made my chains heavy;

⁸though tI call and cry for help,

he shuts out my prayer;

⁹rhe has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;

he has made my paths crooked.

¹⁰uHe is a bear lying in wait for me,

a lion in hiding;

¹¹vhe turned aside my steps and utore me to pieces;

whe has made me desolate;

¹²xhe bent his bow yand set me

as a target for his arrow.

¹³He drove into my kidneys

zthe arrows of his quiver;

¹⁴aI have become the laughingstock of all peoples,

bthe object of their taunts all day long.

¹⁵cHe has filled me with bitterness;

he has sated me with dwormwood.

¹⁶eHe has made my teeth grind on gravel,

and fmade me cower in ashes;

¹⁷my soul is bereft of peace;

I have forgotten what happiness1 is;

¹⁸gso I say, “My endurance has perished;

so has my hope from the Lord.”

¹⁹hRemember my affliction and my wanderings,

dthe wormwood and ithe gall!

²⁰My soul continually remembers it

jand is bowed down within me.

²¹But this I call to mind,

and ktherefore I have hope:

²²lThe steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;2

lhis mercies never come to an end;

²³they are new mevery morning;

ngreat is your faithfulness.

²⁴o“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,

k“therefore I will hope in him.”

²⁵The Lord is good to those who pwait for him,

to the soul who seeks him.

²⁶qIt is good that one should wait quietly

for the salvation of the Lord.