O, What a heartwrenching, soul-searching passage I have read today! I have had the feelings that this passage describes. I have walked through these words.

 Lamentations 3:17-33; 40-41 HCSB

¹⁷ My soul has been deprived of peace;
    I have forgotten what happiness is. 

  ¹⁸Then I thought: My future is lost,
    as well as my hope from the LORD.

    ¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my homelessness,
    the wormwood and the poison.

    ²⁰ I continually remember [them]
    and have become depressed.

    ²¹ Yet I call this to mind,
    and therefore I have hope:

    ²² [Because of] the LORD’s faithful love
    we do not perish, for His mercies never end.

    ²³They are new every morning;
    great is Your faithfulness!

    ²⁴ I say: The LORD is my portion,
    therefore I will put my hope in Him.

    ²⁵The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,
    to the person who seeks Him.

    ²⁶It is good to wait quietly
    for deliverance from the LORD.

    ²⁷It is good for a man to bear the yoke
    while he is [still] young.

    ²⁸ Let him sit alone and be silent,
    for God has disciplined him.

    ²⁹ Let him put his mouth in the dust —
    perhaps there is [still] hope.

    ³⁰ Let him offer [his] cheek
    to the one who would strike him;
    let him be filled with shame.

    ³¹ For the Lord
    will not reject [us] forever.

    ³² Even if He causes suffering,
    He will show compassion
    according to His abundant, faithful love.

    ³³ For He does not enjoy bringing affliction
    or suffering on mankind.

   ⁴⁰ Let us search out and examine our ways,
    and turn back to the LORD.

    ⁴¹ Let us lift up our hearts and [our] hands
    to God in heaven

We are wounded. We are drifting. We are crying. We are pierced.

He is just. He is merciful. He is faithful. He is right.

We must search. We must break. We must worship. We must wait.

He gives hope! He gives grace! He gives peace! He gives love!