PSALMS 69:19-35

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

²⁰Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

²¹They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their table before them become a snare; and when they are in peace, let it become 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 overtake them.

²⁵Let their habitation be desolate; let none dwell in their tents.

²⁶For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they tell of 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 poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

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

³¹And it shall please the LORD better than an ox, or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

³²The meek have seen it, and are glad: ye that seek after God, let your heart live.

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

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

³⁵For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; and they shall abide there, and have it in possession.