17. Answer me, Adonai, for good is Your mercy. With Your great compassion, turn to me.
18. Hide not Your face from Your servant. For I am in distress—answer me quickly.
19. Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my foes.
20. You know my reproach, my shame, my disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.
21. Scorn has broken my heart, so I am sick. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but found none.
22. They put gall in my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
23. Let their table before them be a snare, and what should have been for their well-being, let it be a trap.
24. Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see and their backs be bent forever.
25. Pour out Your indignation on them. Let Your fierce anger overtake them.
26. Let their encampment be deserted. Let none dwell in their tents.
27. For they persecute the one You have smitten, so they tell of the pain of those You have wounded.
28. Add guilt to their guilt—may they not come into Your righteousness.
29. May they be wiped out of the book of life and not be recorded with the righteous.
30. But I—I am afflicted and in pain. Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
31. I will praise God’s Name with a song, and magnify Him with praise.
32. It will please Adonai better than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.