Job 6:4, 19:6, Psa 73:14, 88:15, Isa 38:13, Lam 3:1-20, Heb 12:11 | ESV | STEP | For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison ; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

13 ^gI calmed myself ^{▼▼Or (with Targum) I cried for help} until morning;
like a lion ⁱhe breaks all my bones;
from day to night you bring me to an end.

Lamentations 3:1-20

Great Is Your Faithfulness

1 ^jI am the man who has seen affliction
under the ^krod of his wrath;
2 he has driven and brought me
^linto darkness without any light;
3 surely against me he turns his hand
again and again the whole day long.
4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
^mhe has broken my bones;
5 ⁿhe has besieged and enveloped me
with ^obitterness and tribulation;
6 ^phe has made me dwell in darkness
like the dead of long ago.
7 ^qHe has walled me about so that ^rI cannot escape;
he has made my chains heavy;
8 though ^sI call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;
9 ^the has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;
he has made my paths crooked.
10 ^uHe is a bear lying in wait for me,
a lion in hiding;
11 ^vhe turned aside my steps and ^wtore me to pieces;
^xhe has made me desolate;
12 ^yhe bent his bow ^zand set me
as a target for his arrow.
13 He drove into my kidneys
^aathe arrows of his quiver;
14 ^abI have become the laughingstock of all peoples,
^acthe object of their taunts all day long.
15 ^adHe has filled me with bitterness;
he has sated me with ^aewormwood.
16 ^afHe has made my teeth grind on gravel,
and ^agmade me cower in ashes;
17 my soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness ^{▼▼Hebrew good} is;
18 ^aiso I say, “My endurance has perished;
so has my hope from the Lord.”
19 ^ajRemember my affliction and my wanderings,
^akthe wormwood and ^althe gall!
20 My soul continually remembers it
^amand is bowed down within me.

Hebrews 12:11

11 ^anFor the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields ^aothe peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.