¹⁵ But in my stumbling and limping they rejoiced and gathered together [against me]; the smiters (slanderers and revilers) gathered against me, and I knew them not; they ceased not to slander and revile me.

¹⁶ Like profane mockers at feasts [making sport for the price of a cake] they gnashed at me with their teeth.

¹⁷ Lord, how long will You look on [without action]? Rescue my life from their destructions, my dear and only life from the lions!