17. Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.
18. And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.
19. Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies.
20. You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.
21. All those who trouble me are in your sight; my heart has anticipated reproach and misery. And I sought for one who might grieve together with me, but there was no one, and for one who might console me, and I found no one.
22. And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
23. Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal.
24. Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked.
25. Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them.
26. May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles.
27. For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds.
28. Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice.
29. Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just.
30. I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up.
31. I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.
32. And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs.