Let their table, etc.... What here follows in the style of an imprecation, is a prophecy of the wretched state to which the Jews should be reduced in punishment of their wilful obstinacy.
68:24. Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.
68:25. Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
68:26. Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.
68:27. Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
68:28. Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.
68:29. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.
68:30. But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.
68:31. I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise.
68:32. And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.