¹⁴ “May the iniquity of his ancestors be remembered by the Lord,
    and the sin of his mother never be wiped out.
¹⁵ May their guilt be continually before the Lord,
    and may he banish all remembrance of them from the earth.
^16 [a]“For he never thought of showing mercy;
    rather, he hounded to death
    the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.