‘Leave me alone, all you workers of iniquity,
For YHWH has heard the sound of my weeping.
YHWH has heard my supplication,
YHWH will receive my prayer.
All my enemies will be ashamed and extremely vexed,
They will turn back, they will be suddenly ashamed.'
At last his illness begins to subside. He has once again become more confident in YHWH. He tells those who are distressing him to leave him alone because YHWH has responded to him. He knows that God has accepted his repentance, and is once again receiving his prayer. (Of course YHWH had never ceased receiving his prayer, but it was no good telling him that). He is once again restored to full fellowship with YHWH.
We know nothing about who the ‘workers of iniquity' are. This is a favourite expression in the Psalms (Psalms 5:5; Psalms 14:4; Psalms 28:3 and often). In Matthew 7:22-23 it refers to those who while professing belief were not genuine in their belief. They were ‘wrongdoers'. These wrongdoers had possibly sought to comfort him by telling him not to take his sin so seriously. Or they may taken the opportunity to get their own back for ways in which he had previously pricked their consciences by his life and behaviour, by speaking out against his beliefs. They may well have thought that his experiences had demonstrated that they were right. We can compare Job's friends in the book of Job.
But now he senses the restoration of God's presence with him. He knows that he is forgiven. And he knows that the result can only be that those who railed at him are now put to shame, as well as being annoyed at his restoration in this way. It has upset their self-satisfied thoughts and beliefs. Thus they will turn back from him and leave him alone. It is their turn to be vexed or troubled (compare Psalms 6:2-3).
Notice the three steps to his restoration. YHWH has heard what his weeping has revealed, that he is truly repentant for his sin. YHWH has then heard his spoken prayers and pleas, returning to him the sense of His presence. And finally he is aware that once again YHWH is receiving his prayers. Full fellowship is restored.
And finally he is satisfied because his ‘enemies' are thwarted. Like Job's comforters, in the end they are put to flight. And his final hope is that through this they might be made to face up to their own position, recognising that his experience should trouble them and put them to shame.