16. Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is perceptible, look upon me according to the multitude of thy acts of compassion
17. And hide not thy face from thy slave, for I am in trouble; hear me speedily.
18. Draw near unto my soul and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies.
19. Thou hast known my reproach and my shame and my dishonour; my adversaries are all before thee.
20. Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness, and I looked for some to take pity, but there was no one, and for comforters, but I found none.
21. They also 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 that which should have been for their prosperity, let it become a stumbling block.
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 thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25. Let their palace be desolate, and let no one dwell in their tents.
26. For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they boast that thou hast slain their enemies.
27. Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous.
29. But I am poor and sorrowful; let thy saving health, O God, set me up on high.
30. I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify him with praises.