20. Let this be the reward from the Lord of those who spoke falsely against me and of those that speak evil against my soul.
21. And thou, O GOD the Lord, do unto me for thy name’s sake; because thy mercy is good, deliver me.
22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23. I am gone like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down by the wind as the locust.
24. My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails for lack of fatness.
25. I have become a reproach unto them; when they looked upon me they shook their heads.
26. Help me, O Lord my God; O save me according to thy mercy,
27. that they may know that this is thy hand, that thou, O Lord, hast done it.
28. Let them curse, but bless thou; when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let thy slave rejoice.