Lamentations 3:16-18

The Voice

¹⁶ For He crushes my teeth with a mouth filled with gravel;
    He humiliates me, trampling me in ashes.
¹⁷ Fragmented, my self knows no peace.
    I cannot remember what it’s like to be happy.
¹⁸ “Failed,” I say to myself. “My hope fails
    in the face of what the Eternal One has done.”