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.