26. For they persecute him whom you have struck down,and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.
27. Add to them punishment upon punishment;may they have no acquittal from you.
28. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
29. But I am afflicted and in pain;let your salvation, O God, set me on high!
30. I will praise the name of God with a song;I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31. This will please the Lord more than an oxor a bull with horns and hoofs.
32. When the humble see it they will be glad;you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
33. For the Lord hears the needyand does not despise his own people who are prisoners.