18. And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.
19. May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
20. This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.
21. But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,
22. for I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
23. I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.