Psalm 35:12-14

Good News Translation

¹² They pay me back evil for good,
    and I sink in despair.
¹³ But when they were sick, I dressed in mourning;
    I deprived myself of food;
I prayed with my head bowed low,
¹⁴     as I would pray for a friend or a brother.
I went around bent over in mourning,
    as one who mourns for his mother.