25. Make their fortification desolate;may no one live in their tents.
26. For they persecute the one You struckand talk about the pain of those You wounded.
27. Add guilt to their guilt;do not let them share in Your righteousness.
28. Let them be erased from the book of lifeand not be recorded with the righteous.
29. But as for me — poor and in pain —let Your salvation protect me, God.
30. I will praise God’s name with songand exalt Him with thanksgiving.
31. That will please Yahweh more than an ox,more than a bull with horns and hooves.
32. The humble will see it and rejoice.You who seek God, take heart!
33. For the Lord listens to the needyand does not despiseHis own who are prisoners.
34. Let heaven and earth praise Him,the seas and everything that moves in them,
35. for God will save Zionand build up the cities of Judah.They will live there and possess it.
36. The descendants of His servants will inherit it,and those who love His name will live in it.