¹⁵ Lord, you understand;
    remember me and care for me.
    Avenge me on my persecutors.^(A)
You are long-suffering^(B)—do not take me away;
    think of how I suffer reproach for your sake.^(C)

²⁰ Should good be repaid with evil?^(A)
    Yet they have dug a pit^(B) for me.
Remember that I stood^(C) before you
    and spoke in their behalf^(D)
    to turn your wrath away from them.
²¹ So give their children over to famine;^(E)
    hand them over to the power of the sword.^(F)
Let their wives be made childless and widows;^(G)
    let their men be put to death,
    their young men^(H) slain by the sword in battle.
²² Let a cry^(I) be heard from their houses
    when you suddenly bring invaders against them,
for they have dug a pit^(J) to capture me
    and have hidden snares^(K) for my feet.
²³ But you, Lord, know
    all their plots to kill^(L) me.
Do not forgive^(M) their crimes
    or blot out their sins from your sight.
Let them be overthrown before you;
    deal with them in the time of your anger.^(N)

⁵ May they be like chaff^(A) before the wind,
    with the angel of the Lord^(B) driving them away;
⁶ may their path be dark and slippery,
    with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.