18. Draw nigh unto my soul, be its redeemer; ransom me because of mine enemies.
19. Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
20. Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21. Yea, they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22. Let their table become a snare before them, and their very welfare a trap;
23. Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not, and make their loins continually to shake.
24. Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger take hold of them.
25. Let their habitation be desolate; let there be no dweller in their tents.
26. For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they talk for the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
27. Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28. Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
29. But I am afflicted and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God set me secure on high.
30. I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving;
31. And it shall please Jehovah more than an ox, --a bullock with horns and cloven hoofs.
32. The meek shall see it, they shall be glad; ye that seek God your heart shall live.