Psalms 69:18-35

¹⁸Come to me and redeem me. Because of my enemies, ransom me.

¹⁹You know my rebuke, my shame, and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before you.

²⁰Rebuke has broken my heart; I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; I looked for comforters, but I found none.

²¹They gave me poison for my food; in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their table before them become a snare; when they think they are in safety, let it become a trap.

²³Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see; and always make their loins shake.

²⁴Pour out your indignation on them, and let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

²⁵Let their place be a desolation; let no one live in their tents.

²⁶For they persecuted the one you struck down. They repeated the account of the pain of those you have wounded.

²⁷Accuse them of having committed iniquity after iniquity; do not let them come into your righteous victory.

²⁸Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life and not be written down along with the righteous.

²⁹But I am poor and sorrowful; let your salvation, God, set me up on high.

³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song and will exalt him with thanksgiving.

³¹That will please Yahweh better than an ox or a bull that has horns and hooves.

³²The meek have seen it and are glad; you who seek after God, let your hearts live.

³³For Yahweh hears the needy and does not despise his prisoners.

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

³⁵For God will save Zion and will rebuild the cities of Judah; the people will live there and have it as a possession.