40 Let us aexamine and probe our ways,

And let us return to the Lord.

41 We alift up our heart 1and hands

Toward God in heaven;

42 We have atransgressed and rebelled,

You have bnot pardoned.

43 You have covered Yourself with aanger

And bpursued us;

You have slain and chave not spared.

44 You have acovered Yourself with a cloud

So that bno prayer can pass through.

45 You have made us mere aoffscouring and refuse

In the midst of the peoples.

46 All our enemies have aopened their mouths against us.

47 aPanic and pitfall have befallen us,

Devastation and destruction;

48 My 1aeyes run down with streams of water

Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 My eyes pour down aunceasingly,

Without stopping,

50 Until the Lord alooks down

And sees from heaven.

51 My eyes bring pain to my soul

Because of all the daughters of my city.

52 My enemies awithout cause

Hunted me down blike a bird;

53 They have silenced 1me ain the pit

And have 2bplaced a stone on me.

54 Waters flowed aover my head;

I said, “I am cut off!”

55 I acalled on Your name, O Lord,

Out of the lowest pit.

56 You have aheard my voice,

“bDo not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,

From my cry for help.”

57 You adrew near when I called on You;

You said, “bDo not fear!”

58 O Lord, You ahave pleaded my soul’s cause;

You have bredeemed my life.

59 O Lord, You have aseen my oppression;

bJudge my case.

60 You have seen all their vengeance,

All their aschemes against me.

61 You have heard their areproach, O Lord,

All their schemes against me.

62 The alips of my assailants and their whispering

Are against me all day long.

63 Look on their asitting and their rising;

bI am their mocking song.

64 You will arecompense them, O Lord,

According to the work of their hands.

65 You will give them 1ahardness of heart,

Your curse will be on them.

66 You will apursue them in anger and destroy them

From under the bheavens of the Lord!