^{20 Ref} Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

^{21 Ref} They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

^{22 Ref} Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, `let it become' a trap.

^{23 Ref} Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; And make their loins continually to shake.

^{24 Ref} Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.

^{25 Ref} Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents.

^{26 Ref} For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.

^{27 Ref} Add iniquity unto their iniquity; And let them not come into thy righteousness.

^{28 Ref} Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.

^{29 Ref} But I am poor and sorrowful: Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.