16. Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy loving-kindness is good: according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, turn toward me;
17. And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: answer me speedily.
18. Draw nigh unto my soul, be its redeemer; ransom me because of mine enemies.
19. Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
20. Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21. Yea, they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22. Let their table become a snare before them, and their very welfare a trap;
23. Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not, and make their loins continually to shake.
24. Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger take hold of them.
25. Let their habitation be desolate; let there be no dweller in their tents.
26. For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they talk for the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
27. Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.