49. My eyes will flow unceasingly,without relief,
50. until the Lord looks downfrom heaven and sees.
51. What I see brings grief to my soulbecause of all the women of my city.
52. Those who were my enemies without causehunted me like a bird.
53. They tried to end my life in a pitand threw stones at me;
54. the waters closed over my head,and I thought I was about to perish.
55. I called on your name, Lord,from the depths of the pit.
56. You heard my plea: ‘Do not close your earsto my cry for relief.’