69:18 Come near me and redeem me! 1
Because of my enemies, rescue me!
69:19 You know how I am insulted, humiliated and disgraced;
you can see all my enemies. 2
69:20 Their insults are painful 3 and make me lose heart; 4
I look 5 for sympathy, but receive none, 6
for comforters, but find none.
69:21 They put bitter poison 7 into my food,
and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink. 8
69:22 May their dining table become a trap before them!
May it be a snare for that group of friends! 9
69:23 May their eyes be blinded! 10
Make them shake violently! 11
69:24 Pour out your judgment 12 on them!
May your raging anger 13 overtake them!
69:25 May their camp become desolate,
their tents uninhabited! 14
69:26 For they harass 15 the one whom you discipline; 16
they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish. 17
69:27 Hold them accountable for all their sins! 18
Do not vindicate them! 19
69:28 May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! 20
Do not let their names be listed with the godly! 21
69:29 I am oppressed and suffering!
O God, deliver and protect me! 22
69:30 I will sing praises to God’s name! 23
I will magnify him as I give him thanks! 24
69:31 That will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull
with horns and hooves.
69:32 The oppressed look on – let them rejoice!
You who seek God, 25 may you be encouraged! 26
69:33 For the Lord listens to the needy;
he does not despise his captive people. 27
69:34 Let the heavens and the earth praise him,
along with the seas and everything that swims in them!
69:35 For God will deliver Zion
and rebuild the cities of Judah,
and his people 28 will again live in them and possess Zion. 29
69:36 The descendants of his servants will inherit it,
and those who are loyal to him 30 will live in it. 31