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 heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.
21. They put gall in my food and 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 they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.
24. Pour out your wrath on them; let your fierce anger overtake them.
25. May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
26. For they persecute those you wound and talk about the pain of those you hurt.
27. Charge them with crime upon crime; do not let them share in your salvation.