20. Should good be repaid with evil?Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before youto speak good for them,to turn away your wrath from them.
21. Therefore deliver up their children to famine;give them over to the power of the sword;let their wives become childless and widowed.May their men meet death by pestilence,their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.
22. May a cry be heard from their houses,when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them!For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet.
23. Yet you, O Lord, knowall their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity,nor blot out their sin from your sight.Let them be overthrown before you;deal with them in the time of your anger.