Psalms 35:9-14

⁹Then I will exult in the Lord, and be joyful because of his help;

¹⁰and all my being will say, “Who, O Lord, is like you, who save the helpless from those too strong for them, the poor and the helpless from those who despoil them?”

¹¹Violent witnesses rise, and ask of me things that I know not.

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.