16. Answer me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: according to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.
17. And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress; answer me speedily.
18. Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: ransom me because of mine enemies.
19. Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
20. Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21. They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22. Let their table before them become a snare; and when they are in peace, let it become a trap.
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 the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.
25. Let their habitation be desolate; let none dwell in their tents.
26. For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded,
27. Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28. Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
29. But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30. I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31. And it shall please the Lord better than an ox, or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
32. The meek have seen it, and are glad: ye that seek after God, let your heart live.