He will not permit me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
How long will you not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.
Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them who are trained by it.
Surely against me has he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.
Your anger lies hard upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and be no more.
As God lives, who has taken away my right; and the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul;
Therefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
For you write bitter things against me, and make me possess the iniquities of my youth.
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: