17. Lord, how long will You look on [without action]? Rescue my life from their destructions, my dear and only life from the lions!
18. I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among a mighty throng.
19. Let not those who are wrongfully my foes rejoice over me; neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without cause. [John 15:24, 25.]
20. For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.
21. Yes, they open their mouths wide against me; they say, Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen it!
22. You have seen this, O Lord; keep not silence! O Lord, be not far from me!