10. For zeal for Your House consumed me— the insults of those who insulted You have fallen on me.
11. When I wept and fasted— that became a reproach to me.
12. When I put on sackcloth, I became a joke to them.
13. Those who sit at the gate chatter about me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
14. But as for me, my prayer to You, Adonai, is for a time of favor. O God, in Your great love, answer me with the truth of Your salvation.