22 (A)Let their own (B)table before them become a snare;
    (C)and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.[a]
23 (D)Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
    (E)and make their loins tremble continually.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them,
    and let your burning anger overtake them.
25 (F)May their camp be a desolation;
    let no one dwell in their tents.
26 For they (G)persecute him whom (H)you have struck down,
    and they recount the pain of (I)those you have wounded.
27 (J)Add to them punishment upon punishment;
    may they have no acquittal from you.[b]
28 Let them be (K)blotted out of the book of the living;
    let them not be (L)enrolled among the righteous.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:22 Hebrew; a slight revocalization yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome) a snare, and retribution and a trap
  2. Psalm 69:27 Hebrew may they not come into your righteousness

(A)Appoint a wicked man (B)against him;
    let an accuser stand (C)at his right hand.
When he is tried, let him come forth guilty;
    let his (D)prayer be counted as sin!
May his (E)days be few;
    may (F)another take his (G)office!
May his (H)children be fatherless
    and his wife a widow!
10 May his children (I)wander about and beg,
    (J)seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
11 May (K)the creditor seize all that he has;
    may (L)strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
12 Let there be none to (M)extend kindness to him,
    nor any to (N)pity his fatherless children!
13 May his (O)posterity be cut off;
    may his (P)name be blotted out in the second generation!
14 May (Q)the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
    and let not the sin of his mother be (R)blotted out!
15 (S)Let them be before the Lord continually,
    that he may (T)cut off the memory of them from the earth!

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