¹⁵ You understand, Lord!
    Remember me and act on my behalf.
Bring judgment on those who torment me.
    In your mercy, spare my life.^[a]
    Consider how I’m insulted on your account.

¹⁵ See how they harass me:
    “Where’s the Lord’s word?
        Let it come now!”
¹⁶ Yet I didn’t urge you to bring disaster;^[a]
    I didn’t want the calamity to happen.
You know what comes out of my mouth;
    it’s always before you.
¹⁷ Don’t terrorize me;
    you are my refuge in time of disaster.
¹⁸ Let my tormentors be disgraced, but not me;
    let them be terrorized, but not me.
Bring on them the time of disaster,
    as they deserve; destroy them repeatedly.