18. Draw near to my soul; redeem it. Because of my enemies, ransom me.
19. You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace. Fully known to you are all my adversaries.
20. Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
21. They also gave me gall for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22. Let their table before them be a trap, and their times of peace a snare.
23. Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see, and make their loins continually tremble.
24. Pour out your indignation on them, and let your burning anger overtake them.
25. Let their camp be desolate. Let none dwell in their tents,
26. because they persecute those whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of those you have wounded.
27. Add guilt on top of their guilt, and do not let them be acquitted.
28. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be recorded with the righteous.
29. But as for me, though I am afflicted and pained, your salvation will protect me, O God.
30. I will praise the name of God in song, and magnify him with thanksgiving.
31. For Yahweh it will be better than an ox or bull, horned and hoofed.
32. The afflicted will see and rejoice. O God seekers, let your heart revive,