12. On my right the rabble rise up; they entangle my feet and build up their destructive paths against me.
13. They break up my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone helping them.
14. As through a wide breach they come; amid the ruins they come rolling in.
15. Terrors are turned on me; they chase away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance vanishes.
16. “And now my soul is poured out within me; days of suffering have taken hold of me.
17. Night pierces my bones within me; my gnawing pains never rest.
18. By great power He seizes my garment; He binds me like the collar of my tunic.
19. He has cast me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
20. “I cry out to You, but You do not answer me; I stand up, but You only look at me.
21. You have turned on me cruelly; You attack me with the might of Your hand.