Psalms 69:17-33

¹⁷And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: answer me speedily.

¹⁸Draw nigh unto my soul, be its redeemer; ransom me because of mine enemies.

¹⁹Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

²⁰Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

²¹Yea, they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their table become a snare before them, and their very welfare a trap;

²³Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not, and make their loins continually to shake.

²⁴Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger take hold of them.

²⁵Let their habitation be desolate; let there be no dweller in their tents.

²⁶For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they talk for the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.

²⁷Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.

²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

²⁹But I am afflicted and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me secure on high.

³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving;

³¹And it shall please Jehovah more than an ox, — a bullock with horns and cloven hoofs.

³²The meek shall see it, they shall be glad; ye that seek God, your heart shall live.

³³For Jehovah heareth the needy, and despiseth not his prisoners.