48. My eyes overflow with streams of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49. My eyes overflow continually and will not cease
50. Until the Lord looks down and sees from heaven.
51. My eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the maidens [and the daughter-towns] of my city [Jerusalem].
52. I have been hunted down like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause.
53. They [thought they had] destroyed my life in the dungeon (pit) and cast a stone [over it] above me. [Jer. 38.]
54. The waters ran down on my head; I said, I am gone.
55. I called upon Your name, O Lord, out of the depths [of the mire] of the dungeon. [Jer. 38:6.]
56. You heard my voice [then]: [Oh] hide not Your ear [now] at my prayer for relief.
57. You drew near on the day I called to You; You said, Fear not. [James 4:8.]
58. O Lord, You have pleaded the causes of my soul [You have managed my affairs and You have protected my person and my rights]; You have rescued and redeemed my life!
59. O Lord, You have seen my wrong [done to me]; judge and maintain my cause.
60. You have seen all their vengeance, all their devices against me.
61. You have heard their reproach and revilings, O Lord, and all their devices against me–
62. The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all day long.
63. Look at their sitting down and their rising up [their movements, doings, and secret counsels]; I am their singsong [the subject of their derision and merriment]. [Ps. 139:2; Isa. 37:28.]
64. Render to them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.
65. You will give them hardness and blindness of heart; Your curse will be upon them.
66. You will pursue and afflict them in anger and destroy them from under Your heavens, O Lord.