Psalms 35
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Psalm 35
Of David.
1 LORD, argue with those who argue with me;
fight with those who fight against me!
2Grab a shield and armor;
stand up and help me!
3Use your spear and ax#35.3 Correction
against those who are out to get me!
Say to me:#35.3 Or my soul; also in 35:4, 7, 9, 12, 13, 17, 24 “I’m your salvation!”
4Let those who want me dead
be humiliated and put to shame.
Let those who intend to hurt me
be thoroughly frustrated and disgraced.
5Let them be like dust on the wind—
and let the LORD’s messenger be the one who does the blowing!
6Let their path be dark and slippery—
and let the LORD’s messenger be the one who does the chasing!
7Because they hid their net for me for no reason,
they dug a pit for me for no reason.
8Let disaster come to them when they don’t suspect it.
Let the net they hid catch them instead!
Let them fall into it—to their disaster!
9But I will rejoice in the LORD;
I will celebrate his salvation.
10All my bones will say, “LORD, who could compare to you?
You rescue the weak from those who overpower them;
you rescue the weak and the needy from those who plunder them.”
11Violent witnesses stand up.
They question me about things I know nothing about.
12They pay me back evil for good,
leaving me stricken with grief.
13But when they were sick, I wore clothes for grieving,
and I kept a strict fast.
When my prayer came back unanswered,#35.13 Heb uncertain
14I would wander around like I was grieving a friend or a brother.
I was weighed down, sad, like I was a mother in mourning.
15But when I stumbled, they celebrated and gathered together—
they gathered together against me!
Strangers#35.15 Correction I didn’t know tore me to pieces and wouldn’t quit.
16They ridiculed me over and over again,
like godless people would do,
grinding their teeth at me.
17How long, my Lord, will you watch this happen?
Rescue me from their attacks;
rescue my precious life from these predatory lions!
18Then I will thank you in the great assembly;
I will praise you in a huge crowd of people.
19Don’t let those who are my enemies
without cause celebrate over me;
don’t let those who hate me for no reason
wink at my demise.
20They don’t speak the truth;
instead, they plot false accusations
against innocent people in the land.
21They speak out against me,
saying, “Yes! Oh, yes! We’ve seen it with our own eyes!”
22But you’ve seen it too, LORD.
Don’t keep quiet about it.
Please don’t be far from me, my Lord.
23Wake up! Get up and do justice for me;
argue my case, my Lord and my God!
24Establish justice for me
according to your righteousness, LORD, my God.
Don’t let them celebrate over me.
25Don’t let them say to themselves,
Yes! Exactly what we wanted!
Don’t let them say, “We ate him up!”
26Let all those who celebrate my misfortune be disgraced and put to shame!
Let those who exalt themselves over me
be dressed up in shame and dishonor!
27But let those who want things to be set right for me
shout for joy and celebrate!
Let them constantly say, “The LORD is great—
God wants his servant to be at peace.”
28Then my tongue will talk
all about your righteousness;
it will talk
about your praise all day long.
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Psalm 35
35
A Psalm of David.
1Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me:
Fight against them that fight against me.
2Take hold of shield and buckler,
And stand up for mine help.
3Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me:
Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
4Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul:
Let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
5Let them be as chaff before the wind:
And let the angel of the LORD chase them.
6Let their way be dark and slippery:
And let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit,
Which without cause they have digged for my soul.
8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself:
Into that very destruction let him fall.
9And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD:
It shall rejoice in his salvation.
10All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him,
Yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
11False witnesses did rise up;
They laid to my charge things that I knew not.
12They rewarded me evil for good
To the spoiling of my soul.
13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting;
And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother:
I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together:
Yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
16With hypocritical mockers in feasts,
They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17Lord, how long wilt thou look on?
Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
18I will give thee thanks in the great congregation:
I will praise thee among much people.
19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me:
Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
20For they speak not peace:
But they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me,
And said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence:
O Lord, be not far from me.
23Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment,
Even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
24Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness;
And let them not rejoice over me.
25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it:
Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt:
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
27Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause:
Yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
28And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness
And of thy praise all the day long.
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