²² then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder,
    and let my arm be broken from its socket.

⁶ Let my ^(A)tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
    if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
    above my highest joy!

⁴ if I have repaid ^(A)my friend^[a] with evil
    or ^(B)plundered my enemy without cause,
⁵ let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
    and let him ^(C)trample my life to the ground
    and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

¹⁵ From the wicked their ^(A)light is withheld,
    and ^(B)their uplifted arm is broken.

⁴⁰ let ^(A)thorns grow instead of wheat,
    and foul weeds instead of barley.”

¹⁰ then let my wife ^(A)grind for another,
    and let others ^(B)bow down on her.