Psalm 69:19–33

¹⁹You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace.

Fully known^g to you are all my adversaries.

²⁰Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick.

And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none,

and for comforters, but I found none.

²¹They also gave me gall for food,^h

and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their table before them be a trap,

and their times of peace a snare.

²³Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see,

and make their loins continually tremble.

²⁴Pour out your indignation on them,

and let your burning anger overtake them.

²⁵Let their camp be desolate.

Let none dwell in their tents,

²⁶because they persecute those whom you, yourself, have struck,

and they tell of the pain of those you have wounded.

²⁷Add guilt on top of their guilt,ⁱ

and do not let them be acquitted.^j

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

and let them not be recorded with the righteous.

²⁹But as for me, though I am afflicted and pained,

your salvation will protect^k me, O God.

³⁰I will praise the name of God in song,

and magnify him with thanksgiving.

³¹For Yahweh it will be better than an ox or bull,

horned and hoofed.^l

³²The afflicted will see and rejoice.

O God seekers, let your heart revive,^m

³³because Yahweh hears the needy

and does not despise his own who are prisoners.