He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

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

Yahweh 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 Yahweh.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Doesn't evil 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 the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

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

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