He has cut off in fierce anger all the strength of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the enemy. He has blazed in Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke while he is young.

Doesn't both calamity and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

They have cut off my life in a pit, and have cast a stone on me.

Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz. The cup shall pass through to you also; you will get drunk, and shall make yourself naked.

We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.