He will not allow me to get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Are not my days few? Stop then, and leave me alone that I may cheer up a little,
For You write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
“As God lives, who has taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
“Why is light given to the miserable, and life unto the bitter in soul,
How long until You look away from me? Will You not let me alone until I swallow my saliva?
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may become cheerful again, before I go away and am no more.
Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah
but have walked after the imagination of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.
He has filled me with bitterness, He has sated me with wormwood.
Surely against me has He turned His hand continually, the whole day long.
Now no discipline seems to be joyful at the time, but grievous. Yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness in those who have been trained by it.
But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi. Call me Mara, because the Almighty has brought great bitterness to me.