20 Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one. 21 They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst. 22 May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
Psalms 69:20–22
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Psalms 109:4–6
4 In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer. 5 They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love. 6 Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
Psalms 35:11–13
11 Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about. 12 They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul. 13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
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Romans 11:8–10
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Job 30:9–11
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Lamentations 3:64–66
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15 But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing. 16 Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me. 17 How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from thei…
Psalms 40:14–16
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