Psalms 69:22-36

22Let their table set before them be a snare, and let it be a trap for their allies.

23Let their eyes grow too dim to see, and let their hips continually quake.

24Pour out your rage on them, and let your burning anger overtake them.

25Make their fortification desolate; may no one live in their tents.

26For they persecute the one you struck and talk about the pain of those you wounded.

27Charge them with crime on top of crime; do not let them share in your righteousness.

28Let them be erased from the book of life and not be recorded with the righteous.

29But as for me — poor and in pain — let your salvation protect me, God.

30I will praise God’s name with song and exalt him with thanksgiving.

31That will please the Lord more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.

32The humble will see it and rejoice. You who seek God, take heart!

33For the Lord listens to the needy and does not despise his own who are prisoners.

34Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them,

35for God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah. They will live there and possess it.

36The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will live in it.