Indignation seizes me because of the wicked
who forsake your law.
Though the snares of the wicked are twined about me,
your law I have not forgotten.
Redeem me from the oppression of men,
that I may keep your precepts.
I am attacked by malicious persecutors
who are far from your law.
Far from sinners is salvation,
because they seek not your statutes.
I beheld the apostates with loathing,
because they kept not to your promise.
Carl Heinrich Bloch. 19th century. Museum of National
History on Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød, Denmark.