Answer me, Yahweh, for your covenant faithfulness is good; because your mercies for me are many, turn to me. Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress; answer me quickly. Come to me and redeem me. Because of my enemies, ransom me. You know my rebuke, my shame, and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before you. Rebuke has broken my heart; I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; I looked for comforters, but I found none. They gave me poison for my food; in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Let their table before them become a snare; when they think they are in safety, let it become a trap. Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see; and always make their loins shake. Pour out your indignation on them, and let your raging anger overtake them. Let their encampment be a desolation; let no one live in their tents. For they persecuted the one you struck down. They repeated the account of the pain of those you have wounded. Accuse them of having committed iniquity after iniquity; do not let them come into your righteous victory. Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life and not be written down along with the righteous. But I am poor and in pain; let your salvation, God, set me up on high. I will praise the name of God with a song and will exalt him with thanksgiving. That will please Yahweh better than an ox or a bull that has horns and hooves. The meek have seen it and are glad; you who seek after God, let your hearts live. For Yahweh hears the needy and does not despise his prisoners. Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them. For God will save Zion and will rebuild the cities of Judah; the people will live there and have it as a possession. His servants' descendants will inherit it; and those who love his name will live there.
