22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23. I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24. My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25. I am become also a reproach unto them: when they see me, they shake their head.
26. Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to thy mercy:
27. That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
28. Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, they shall be ashamed, but thy servant shall rejoice.
29. Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonour, and let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a mantle.