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

^{21 Ref} They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

^{22 Ref} Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

^{23 Ref} Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.

^{24 Ref} Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

^{25 Ref} Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

^{26 Ref} For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

^{27 Ref} Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your 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 in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.