17. Do not hide your face from your servant;answer me quickly, for I am in trouble.
18. Come near and rescue me;deliver me because of my foes.
19. You know how I am scorned, disgraced and shamed;all my enemies are before you.
20. Scorn has broken my heartand has left me helpless;I looked for sympathy, but there was none,for comforters, but I found none.
21. They put gall in my foodand gave me vinegar for my thirst.
22. May the table set before them become a snare;may it become retribution and a trap.
23. May their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,and their backs be bent for ever.
24. Pour out your wrath on them;let your fierce anger overtake them.