¹⁷ How long,^(A) Lord, will you look on?
    Rescue me from their ravages,
    my precious life^(B) from these lions.^(C)
18 I will give you thanks in the great assembly;^(D)
    among the throngs^(E) I will praise you.^(F)
19 Do not let those gloat over me
    who are my enemies^(G) without cause;
do not let those who hate me without reason^(H)
    maliciously wink the eye.^(I)
20 They do not speak peaceably,
    but devise false accusations^(J)
    against those who live quietly in the land.
²¹ They sneer^(K) at me and say, “Aha! Aha!^(L)
    With our own eyes we have seen it.”