25 Their tower is desolated, In their tents there is no  dweller.
         
                                
                        26 For they have pursued him Thou hast smitten, And recount  of the pain of Thy pierced ones.
         
                                
                        27 Give punishment for their iniquity, And they enter not  into Thy righteousness.
         
                                
                        28 They are blotted out of the book of life, And with the  righteous are not written.
         
                                
                        29 And I [am] afflicted and pained, Thy salvation, O God,  doth set me on high.
         
                                
                        30 I praise the name of God with a song, And I magnify Him  with thanksgiving,
         
                                
                        31 And it is better to Jehovah than an ox, A bullock --  horned -- hoofed.