11. Malicious witnesses rise up;they ask me of things that I do not know.
12. They repay me evil for good;my soul is bereft.
13. But I, when they were sick—I wore sackcloth;I afflicted myself with fasting;I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
14. I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;as one who laments his mother,I bowed down in mourning.
15. But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not knowtore at me without ceasing;
16. like profane mockers at a feast,they gnash at me with their teeth.
17. How long, O Lord, will you look on?Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions!
18. I will thank you in the great congregation;in the mighty throng I will praise you.
19. Let not those rejoice over mewho are wrongfully my foes,and let not those wink the eyewho hate me without cause.