55 I called on your name, Lord,
    from the depths(A) of the pit.(B)
56 You heard my plea:(C) “Do not close your ears
    to my cry for relief.”
57 You came near(D) when I called you,
    and you said, “Do not fear.”(E)

58 You, Lord, took up my case;(F)
    you redeemed my life.(G)
59 Lord, you have seen the wrong done to me.(H)
    Uphold my cause!(I)
60 You have seen the depth of their vengeance,
    all their plots against me.(J)

61 Lord, you have heard their insults,(K)
    all their plots against me—
62 what my enemies whisper and mutter
    against me all day long.(L)
63 Look at them! Sitting or standing,
    they mock me in their songs.(M)

64 Pay them back what they deserve, Lord,
    for what their hands have done.(N)
65 Put a veil over their hearts,(O)
    and may your curse be on them!
66 Pursue(P) them in anger and destroy them
    from under the heavens of the Lord.

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55 I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

59 O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;

62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

64 Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.

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