Psalms 35:12-18

¹²Evil for good they requite me, leaving me inwardly comfortless.

¹³But when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and chastened myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed low,

¹⁴as if for my friend or my brother. I went about bowed and in mourning, as one who laments his mother.

¹⁵When I stumbled, they gleefully gathered, strangers gathered around me, and tore at me without ceasing,

¹⁶impiously mocking and mocking, bearing their teeth at me.

¹⁷How long, Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their roaring, my precious life from the lions.

¹⁸I will then give you thanks in the great congregation, and praise you before many people.