55. “I called on your name, O Lord,from the depths of the pit;
56. you heard my plea, ‘Do not closeyour ear to my cry for help!’
57. You came near when I called on you;you said, ‘Do not fear!’
58. “You have taken up my cause, O Lord;you have redeemed my life.
59. You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord;judge my cause.
60. You have seen all their vengeance,all their plots against me.
61. “You have heard their taunts, O Lord,all their plots against me.
62. The lips and thoughts of my assailantsare against me all the day long.
63. Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.
64. “You will repay them, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.