5. Those who hate me without a cause outnumber the hairs of my head. Powerful are my enemies who would destroy me with lies. What I did not steal, must I restore?
6. O God, You know my folly, nor are my trespasses hidden from You.
7. May those who hope in You not be ashamed because of me, my Lord, Adonai-Tzva’ot. May those who seek You not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel.
8. For I have endured scorn for Your sake. Disgrace has covered my face.
9. I have become a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother’s children.
10. For zeal for Your House consumed me— the insults of those who insulted You have fallen on me.
11. When I wept and fasted— that became a reproach to me.
12. When I put on sackcloth, I became a joke to them.
13. Those who sit at the gate chatter about me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
14. But as for me, my prayer to You, Adonai, is for a time of favor. O God, in Your great love, answer me with the truth of Your salvation.