18. Be near unto my soul--redeem it, Because of mine enemies ransom me.
19. Thou--Thou hast known my reproach, And my shame, and my blushing, Before Thee [are] all mine adversaries.
20. Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none.
21. And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar.
22. Their table before them is for a snare, And for a recompence--for a trap.
23. Darkened are their eyes from seeing, And their loins continually shake Thou.
24. Pour upon them Thine indignation, And the fierceness of Thine anger doth seize them.
25. Their tower is desolated, In their tents there is no dweller.
26. For they have pursued him Thou hast smitten, And recount of the pain of Thy pierced ones.
27. Give punishment for their iniquity, And they enter not into Thy righteousness.
28. They are blotted out of the book of life, And with the righteous are not written.
29. And I [am] afflicted and pained, Thy salvation, O God, doth set me on high.
30. I praise the name of God with a song, And I magnify Him with thanksgiving,
31. And it is better to Jehovah than an ox, A bullock--horned--hoofed.
32. The humble have seen--they rejoice, Ye who seek God--and your heart liveth.
33. For Jehovah hearkeneth unto the needy, And His bound ones He hath not despised.
34. The heavens and earth do praise Him, Seas, and every moving thing in them.
35. For God doth save Zion, And doth build the cities of Judah, And they have dwelt there, and possess it.
36. And the seed of His servants inherit it, And those loving His name dwell in it!