17. Lord, how long will You look on?Rescue me from their destructions,My precious life from the lions.
18. I will give You thanks in the great assembly;I will praise You among many people.
19. Let them not rejoice over me who are wrongfully my enemies;Nor let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.
20. For they do not speak peace,But they devise deceitful mattersAgainst the quiet ones in the land.
21. They also opened their mouth wide against me,And said, “Aha, aha!Our eyes have seen it.”
22. This You have seen, O Lord;Do not keep silence.O Lord, do not be far from me.
23. Stir up Yourself, and awake to my vindication,To my cause, my God and my Lord.
24. Vindicate me, O Lord my God, according to Your righteousness;And let them not rejoice over me.
25. Let them not say in their hearts, “Ah, so we would have it!”Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”