21. But take care of me, O GOD the Lord, for your name's sake: because your mercy is good, deliver me.
22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23. I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am shaken off like the locust.
24. My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh lacks fatness.
25. I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shook their heads.
26. Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to your mercy:
27. That they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.
28. Let them curse, but you bless: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let your servant rejoice.
29. Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30. I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31. For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.