23. I am gone like a lengthening tzel (shadow); I am shaken off like the arbeh.
24. My knees are weak from a tzom; and my basar faileth of fatness.
25. I became also a cherpah (reproach) unto them; when they looked upon me, they shaked their heads.
26. Help me, O Hashem Elohai; O hoshi'eini (save me) according to Thy chesed;
27. That they may know that this is Thy Yad; that Thou, Hashem, hast done it.
28. Let them make kelalah (curse), but do Thou make berakhah; when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let Thy eved rejoice.