who will not allow me to bring back my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Are not my days few? Then cease and let me alone, that I may take a little comfort
For You write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
As God lives, He has turned aside my judgment; yea, the Almighty has made my soul bitter.
Why is light given to the sufferer, and life to him who is bitter of soul;
How long will You not look away from me, and not leave me alone until I swallow my spittle?
Look away from me and I will be cheerful before I go away and be no more.
Your fury has lain hard upon me, and You afflict me with all Your waves. Selah.
but they have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;
He has filled me with bitterness and made me drunk with wormwood.
Surely He turned against me; He turns His hand all the day.
And all discipline for the present in deed does not seem to be of joy, but of grief; but afterward it gives back peaceable fruit of righteousness to the ones having been exercised through it.
And she said to them, Do not call me Naomi. Call me Bitterness, for the Almighty has dealt bitterly with me.