16 Answer me, Lord, out of the goodness of your love;(A)
    in your great mercy turn to me.
17 Do not hide your face(B) from your servant;
    answer me quickly,(C) for I am in trouble.(D)
18 Come near and rescue me;
    deliver(E) me because of my foes.

19 You know how I am scorned,(F) disgraced and shamed;
    all my enemies are before you.
20 Scorn has broken my heart
    and has left me helpless;
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
    for comforters,(G) but I found none.(H)
21 They put gall in my food
    and gave me vinegar(I) for my thirst.(J)

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16 Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

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

20 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.

21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

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