22 For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;
24 My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;
25 And I am become a reproach unto them; when they look upon me they shake their heads.
26 Help me, Jehovah my God save me according to thy loving-kindness:
27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Jehovah, hast done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless thou; when they rise up, let them be ashamed, and let thy servant rejoice.