Psalm Chapter 35 Back NextPsalm 35 By
David.
{35:1} Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
{35:2} Take hold of shield and
buckler, and stand up for my help.
{35:3} Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, "I am your salvation."
{35:4} Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
{35:5} Let them be as
chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.
{35:6} Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing them.
{35:7} For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
{35:8} Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
{35:9} My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.
{35:10} All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"
{35:11} Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.
{35:12} They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
{35:13} But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with
fasting. My prayer returned into my own
bosom.
{35:14} I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my
brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
{35:15} But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
{35:16} Like the profane mockers in
feasts, they
gnashed their teeth at me.
{35:17} Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the
lions.
{35:18} I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.
{35:19} Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
{35:20} For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
{35:21} Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "
Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"
{35:22} You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be far from me.
{35:23} Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
{35:24} Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don't let them gloat over me.
{35:25} Don't let them say in their
heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"
{35:26} Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
{35:27} Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, "Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!"
{35:28} My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.
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