52. Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.
53. Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.
54. Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.
55. Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.
56. Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.
57. Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.
58. Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.
59. Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.
60. Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.
61. Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.
62. Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.
63. Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.
64. Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.
65. Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.