Psalm 69:19–33

¹⁹Thou knowest my reproach,

and my shame and my dishonor;

my foes are all known to thee.

²⁰Insults have broken my heart,

so that I am in despair.

I looked for pity, but there was none;

and for comforters, but I found none.

²¹They gave me poison for food,

and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their own table before them become a snare;

let their sacrificial feasts^l be a trap.

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

and make their loins tremble continually.

²⁴Pour out thy indignation upon them,

and let thy burning anger overtake them.

²⁵May their camp be a desolation,

let no one dwell in their tents.

²⁶For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten,

and him^m whom thou hast wounded, they afflict still more.ⁿ

²⁷Add to them punishment upon punishment;

may they have no acquittal from thee.

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

let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

²⁹But I am afflicted and in pain;

let thy salvation, O God, set me on high!

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

I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

³¹This will please the Lord more than an ox

or a bull with horns and hoofs.

³²Let the oppressed see it and be glad;

you who seek God, let your hearts revive.

³³For the Lord hears the needy,

and does not despise his own that are in bonds.