Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee (69:19)

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 (69:20)

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink (69:21)

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap (69:22)

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake (69:23)

Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them (69:24)

Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents (69:25)

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded (69:26)

Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness (69:27)

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous (69:28)

But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high (69:29)

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving (69:30)

This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs (69:31)

The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God (69:32)

For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners (69:33)

Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein (69:34)

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession (69:35)

The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein (69:36)

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