Psalms 69:22-36

22May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!

23May their eyes be blinded! Make them shake violently!

24Pour out your judgment on them! May your raging anger overtake them!

25May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

26For they harass the one whom you discipline; they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish.

27Hold them accountable for all their sins! Do not vindicate them!

28May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! Do not let their names be listed with the godly!

29I am oppressed and suffering! O God, deliver and protect me!

30I will sing praises to God’s name! I will magnify him as I give him thanks!

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

32The oppressed look on – let them rejoice! You who seek God, may you be encouraged!

33For the Lord listens to the needy; he does not despise his captive people.

34Let the heavens and the earth praise him, along with the seas and everything that swims in them!

35For God will deliver Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, and his people will again live in them and possess Zion.

36The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who are loyal to him will live in it.