Psalm 35

1. 1

   Fight those who fight me, O LORD; *
   attack those who are attacking me.

2. 2

   Take up shield and armor *
   and rise up to help me.

3. 3

   Draw the sword and bar the way against those who pursue me; *
   say to my soul, "I am your salvation."

4. 4

   Let those who seek after my life be shamed and humbled; *
   let those who plot my ruin fall back and be dismayed.

5. 5

   Let them be like chaff before the wind, *
   and let the angel of the LORD drive them away.

6. 6

   Let their way be dark and slippery, *
   and let the angel of the LORD pursue them.

7. 7

   For they have secretly spread a net for me without a cause; *
   without a cause they have dug a pit to take me alive.

8. 8

   Let ruin come upon them unawares; *
   let them be caught in the net they hid; let them fall into the pit they dug.

9. 9

   Then I will be joyful in the LORD; *
   I will glory in his victory.

10. 10

    My very bones will say, "LORD, who is like you? *
    You deliver the poor from those who are too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them."

11. 11

    Malicious witnesses rise up against me; *
    they charge me with matters I know nothing about.

12. 12

    They pay me evil in exchange for good; *
    my soul is full of despair.

13. 13

    But when they were sick I dressed in sack-cloth *
    and humbled myself by fasting.

14. 14

    I prayed with my whole heart, as one would for a friend or a brother; *
    I behaved like one who mourns for his mother, bowed down and grieving.

15. 15

    But when I stumbled, they were glad and gathered together; they gathered against me; *
    strangers whom I did not know tore me to pieces and would not stop.

16. 16

    They put me to the test and mocked me; *
    they gnashed at me with their teeth.

17. 17

    O Lord, how long will you look on? *
    rescue me from the roaring beasts, and my life from the young lions.

18. 18

    I will give you thanks in the great congregation; *
    I will praise you in the mighty throng.

19. 19

    Do not let my treacherous foes rejoice over me, *
    nor let those who hate me without a cause wink at each other.

20. 20

    For they do not plan for peace, *
    but invent deceitful schemes against the quiet in the land.

21. 21

    They opened their mouths at me and said, *
    "Aha! we saw it with our own eyes."

22. 22

    You saw it, O LORD; do not be silent; *
    O Lord, be not far from me.

23. 23

    Awake, arise, to my cause! *
    to my defense, my God and my Lord!

24. 24

    Give me justice, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness; *
    do not let them triumph over me.

25. 25

    Do not let them say in their hearts, "Aha! just what we want!" *
    Do not let them say, "We have swallowed him up."

26. 26

    Let all who rejoice at my ruin be ashamed and disgraced; *
    let those who boast against me be clothed with dismay and shame.

27. 27

    Let those who favor my cause sing out with joy and be glad; *
    let them say always, "Great is the LORD, who desires the prosperity of his servant."

28. 28

    And my tongue shall be talking of your righteousness *
    and of your praise all the day long.

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