17 I am in trouble, so do not hide your face from me.Answer me quickly!
18 Come close, and defend my soul.Set me free because of my enemies.
19 You know that I have been insulted, put to shame, and humiliated.All my opponents are in front of you.
20 Insults have broken my heart, and I am sick.I looked for sympathy, but there was none.I looked for people to comfort me, but I found no one.
21 They poisoned my food,and when I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let the table set for them become a trapand a snare for their friends.
23 Let their vision become clouded so that they cannot see.Let their thighs continually shake.