Great Is Your Faithfulness

3 kI am the man who has seen affliction

under the lrod of his wrath;

2  he has driven and brought me

minto darkness without any light;

3  surely against me he turns his hand

again and again the whole day long.

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

nhe has broken my bones;

5  ohe has besieged and enveloped me

with pbitterness and tribulation;

6  qhe has made me dwell in darkness

like the dead of long ago.

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

he has made my chains heavy;

8  though tI call and cry for help,

he shuts out my prayer;

9  rhe has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;

he has made my paths crooked.

10  uHe is a bear lying in wait for me,

a lion in hiding;

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

whe has made me desolate;

12  xhe bent his bow yand set me

as a target for his arrow.

13  He drove into my kidneys

zthe arrows of his quiver;

14  aI have become the laughingstock of all peoples,

bthe object of their taunts all day long.

15  cHe has filled me with bitterness;

he has sated me with dwormwood.

16  eHe has made my teeth grind on gravel,

and fmade me cower in ashes;

17  my soul is bereft of peace;

I have forgotten what happiness1 is;

18  gso I say, “My endurance has perished;

so has my hope from the Lord.”

19  hRemember my affliction and my wanderings,

dthe wormwood and ithe gall!