10. For I heard many mocking, “Fear on every side!” “Expose,” they say, “yea, let us expose him!” All my friends watched for my stumbling, saying, “He might be lured away, so that we prevail against him, and take our revenge on him.”
11. But יהוה is with me like a mighty, awesome one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and not prevail. They shall be greatly ashamed, for they have not acted wisely – an everlasting reproach never to be forgotten.
12. But, O יהוה of hosts, trying the righteous, and seeing the kidneys and heart, let me see Your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to You.
13. Sing to יהוה! Praise יהוה! For He has delivered the being of the poor from the hand of evil ones.
14. Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!
15. Let the man be cursed who brought news to my father, saying, “A male child has been born to you,” making him very glad.
16. And let that man be like the cities which יהוה overthrew, and repented not. Let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noon,
17. because I was not slain from the womb, so that my mother should have been my grave and her womb forever great.
18. Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?