Psalms 69:8-28

8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons.

9For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

10When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.

11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

12I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.

13But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.

14Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.

15Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.

16Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.

17Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.

18Draw near to my soul, redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies!

19You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.

20Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

21They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.

22Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.

23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually.

24Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them.

25May their camp be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents.

26For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.

27Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from you.

28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.