Psalm 69:19–33

¹⁹Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor:

Mine adversaries are all before thee.

²⁰Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness:

And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;

And for comforters, but I found none.

²¹They gave me also gall for my food;

And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their table before them become a snare;

And when they are in peace, let it become a trap.

²³Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see;

And make their loins continually to shake.

²⁴Pour out thine indignation upon them,

And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.

²⁵Let their habitation be desolate;

Let none dwell in their tents.

²⁶For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten;

And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.

²⁷Add iniquity unto their iniquity;

And let them not come into thy righteousness.

²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of life,

And not be written with the righteous.

²⁹But I am poor and sorrowful:

Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song,

And will magnify him with thanksgiving.

³¹And it will please Jehovah better than an ox,

Or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

³²The meek have seen it, and are glad:

Ye that seek after God, let your heart live.

³³For Jehovah heareth the needy,

And despiseth not his prisoners.