“Let the groans of the prisoners come before you!
According to your great power
Preserve those doomed to die!
Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors
The taunts with which they have taunted you!
Yahweh!
Then we your people,
The flock of your pasture,
Will give thanks to you forever.
From generation to generation
We will recount your praise.”
This psalm ends with the request to listen to their prayers. The Israelites considered themselves as prisoners who were doomed to die. Indeed the psalmist wanted God to preserve them. He wanted God to return sevenfold the taunts that had been delivered to them. They were his people, his flock. They would give thanks forever so that generation after generation would praise him.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 