Psalms 69:17-35

¹⁷Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in trouble; O answer me speedily.

¹⁸Draw near to me, redeem me; because of my enemies, ransom me.

¹⁹You know how I am insulted; in your sight are all my foes.

²⁰Insult has broken my heart, past cure are my shame and confusion. For pity I looked — there was none! And for comforters, but I found none.

²¹Poison they gave me for food, and to slake my thirst they gave vinegar.

²²May their table, outspread, be a trap to them, and their peace-offerings be a snare.

²³May their eyes be darkened and blind, make them shake without ceasing.

²⁴Pour your indignation upon them, let your burning wrath overtake them.

²⁵May their camp be a desolation, in their tents be there none to live.

²⁶For those whom you struck, they persecute, and those whom you wounded, they pain yet more.

²⁷Charge them with sin upon sin, may they not be acquitted by you.

²⁸From the book of life be they blotted, may their names not be written with the righteous.

²⁹Lift me, O God, by your help above my pain and misery.

³⁰Then will I praise God in song and magnify him with thanksgiving,

³¹which shall please the Lord better than ox, or than bullock with horns and hoofs.

³²The oppressed shall rejoice at the sight. You who seek after God, let your heart revive.

³³For the Lord listens to the poor, he does not despise his prisoners.

³⁴Let the heavens and the earth sing his praises, the seas, and all creatures that move in them.

³⁵For God will bring help to Zion, and build up the cities of Judah, his people shall live there in possession.