19. You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor.My adversaries are all before you.
20. Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness.I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;for comforters, but I found none.
21. They also gave me gall for my food.In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
22. Let their table before them become a snare.May it become a retribution and a trap.
23. Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see.Let their backs be continually bent.
24. Pour out your indignation on them.Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
25. Let their habitation be desolate.Let no one dwell in their tents.
26. For they persecute him whom you have wounded.They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
27. Charge them with crime upon crime.Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
28. Let them be blotted out of the book of life,and not be written with the righteous.
29. But I am in pain and distress.Let your salvation, God, protect me.
30. I will praise the name of God with a song,and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31. It will please the Lord better than an ox,or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
32. The humble have seen it, and are glad.You who seek after God, let your heart live.
33. For the Lord hears the needy,and doesn’t despise his captive people.