19. Let it be to him as the raiment with which he covers himself and as the girdle with which he is girded continually.
20. Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the Lord, and of those who speak evil against my life.
21. But You deal with me and act for me, O God the Lord, for Your name's sake; because Your mercy and loving-kindness are good, O deliver me.
22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded and stricken within me.
23. I am gone like the shadow when it lengthens and declines; I toss up and down and am shaken off as the locust.
24. My knees are weak and totter from fasting; and my body is gaunt and has no fatness.