22. Instead they gave me poison for my food;and for my thirst they gave me vinegar.
23. May their own table be a snare for them,and their communion offerings a trap.
24. Make their eyes so dim they cannot see;keep their backs ever feeble.
25. Pour out your wrath upon them;let the fury of your anger overtake them.
26. Make their camp desolate,with none to dwell in their tents.
27. For they pursued the one you struck,added to the pain of the one you wounded.
28. Heap punishment upon their punishment;let them gain from you no vindication.
29. May they be blotted from the book of life;not registered among the just!
30. But here I am miserable and in pain;let your saving help protect me, God,
31. That I may praise God’s name in songand glorify it with thanksgiving.
32. That will please the Lord more than oxen,more than bulls with horns and hooves:
33. “See, you lowly ones, and be glad;you who seek God, take heart!
34. For the Lord hears the poor,and does not spurn those in bondage.
35. Let the heaven and the earth praise him,the seas and whatever moves in them!”
36. For God will rescue Zion,and rebuild the cities of Judah.They will dwell there and possess it;