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20 I feel the pain of their insults.
    The shame makes me feel like dying!
I wanted some sympathy,
    but there was none.
I waited for someone to comfort me,
    but no one came.
21 They gave me poison, not food.
    They gave me vinegar, not wine.
22 Their tables are covered with food.
    Let their fellowship meals destroy them.

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20 Scorn has broken my heart
    and has left me helpless;
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
    for comforters,(A) but I found none.(B)
21 They put gall in my food
    and gave me vinegar(C) for my thirst.(D)

22 May the table set before them become a snare;
    may it become retribution and[a] a trap.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:22 Or snare / and their fellowship become