13. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting, and I prayed with head bowed on my breast.
14. I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother; I bowed down in sorrow, as one who bewails his mother.
15. But in my stumbling and limping they rejoiced and gathered together [against me]; the smiters (slanderers and revilers) gathered against me, and I knew them not; they ceased not to slander and revile me.
16. Like profane mockers at feasts [making sport for the price of a cake] they gnashed at me with their teeth.
17. Lord, how long will You look on [without action]? Rescue my life from their destructions, my dear and only life from the lions!
18. I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among a mighty throng.
19. Let not those who are wrongfully my foes rejoice over me; neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without cause. [John 15:24, 25.]
20. For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.
21. Yes, they open their mouths wide against me; they say, Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen it!
22. You have seen this, O Lord; keep not silence! O Lord, be not far from me!
23. Arouse Yourself, awake to the justice due me, even to my cause, my God and my Lord!
24. Judge and vindicate me, O Lord my God, according to Your righteousness (Your rightness and justice); and let [my foes] not rejoice over me!
25. Let them not say in their hearts, Aha, that is what we wanted! Let them not say, We have swallowed him up and utterly destroyed him.