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)

²² May the table set before them become a snare;
    may it become retribution and^[a] a trap.^(K)
23 May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
    and their backs be bent forever.^(L)
24 Pour out your wrath^(M) on them;
    let your fierce anger overtake them.
²⁵ May their place be deserted;^(N)
    let there be no one to dwell in their tents.^(O)
26 For they persecute those you wound
    and talk about the pain of those you hurt.^(P)
27 Charge them with crime upon crime;^(Q)
    do not let them share in your salvation.^(R)
28 May they be blotted out of the book of life^(S)
    and not be listed with the righteous.^(T)

²⁹ But as for me, afflicted and in pain—
    may your salvation, God, protect me.^(U)