Psalms 69:21-36

21Scorn has broken my heart, so I am sick. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but found none.

22They put gall in my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

23Let their table before them be a snare, and what should have been for their well-being, let it be a trap.

24Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see and their backs be bent forever.

25Pour out Your indignation on them. Let Your fierce anger overtake them.

26Let their encampment be deserted. Let none dwell in their tents.

27For they persecute the one You have smitten, so they tell of the pain of those You have wounded.

28Add guilt to their guilt—may they not come into Your righteousness.

29May they be wiped out of the book of life and not be recorded with the righteous.

30But I—I am afflicted and in pain. Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

31I will praise God’s Name with a song, and magnify Him with praise.

32It will please Adonai better than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.

33The humble will see it and be glad. You who seek God, let your hearts revive.

34For Adonai hears the needy and does not despise His captive people.

35Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything moving in them.

36For God will save Zion, and rebuild the cities of Judah. Then they will dwell there and possess it.