Hope of Relief in God’s Mercy

19 Remember my affliction and my 1wandering, the awormwood and bitterness.

20 Surely amy soul remembers

And is bbowed down within me.

21 This I recall to my mind,

Therefore I have ahope.

22 The Lord’s alovingkindnesses 1indeed never cease,

bFor His compassions never fail.

23 They are new aevery morning;

Great is bYour faithfulness.

24 “The Lord is my aportion,” says my soul,

“Therefore I bhave hope in Him.”

25 The Lord is good to those who await for Him,

To the 1person who bseeks Him.

26 It is good that he awaits silently

For the salvation of the Lord.

27 It is good for a man that he should bear

The yoke in his youth.

28 Let him asit alone and be silent

Since He has laid it on him.

29 Let him 1put his mouth in the adust,

Perhaps there is bhope.

30 Let him give his acheek to 1the smiter,

Let him be filled with reproach.

31 For the Lord will anot reject forever,

32 For if He causes grief,

Then He will have acompassion

According to His abundant lovingkindness.

33 For He adoes not afflict 1willingly

Or grieve the sons of men.

34 To crush under His feet

All the prisoners of the 1land,

35 To 1deprive a man of ajustice

In the presence of the Most High,

36 To 1adefraud a man in his lawsuit—

Of these things the Lord does not 2approve.

37 Who is 1there who speaks and it acomes to pass,

Unless the Lord has commanded it?

38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High

That 1aboth good and ill go forth?

39 Why should any living 1mortal, or any man,

Offer acomplaint 2in view of his sins?