Psalm 35:11-16

New International Reader's Version

¹¹ Mean people come forward to speak against me.
    They ask me things I don’t know anything about.
¹² They pay me back with evil, even though I was good to them.
    They leave me like someone who has lost a family member.
¹³ But when they were sick, I put on the clothing of sadness.
    I made myself humble by going without food.
My prayers for them weren’t always answered.
¹⁴     So I went around crying
    as if I were mourning over my friend or relative.
I bowed my head in sadness
    as if I were weeping over my mother.
¹⁵ But when I tripped and fell, they were all very happy.
    Attackers gathered against me when I didn’t even know it.
    They kept on telling lies about me.
¹⁶ Like ungodly people, they were mean and made fun of me.
    They ground their teeth at me in hate.