12 He bent his bow, and set me upas a target for his arrow.
13 He pierced my kidneyswith shafts from his quiver.
14 I have become a laughingstock to all my people,their taunt all day long;
15 He has sated me with bitterness,filled me with wormwood.
16 He has made me eat gravel,trampled me into the dust;
17 My life is deprived of peace,I have forgotten what happiness is;
18 My enduring hope, I said,has perished before the Lord.