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         <div class="label">35</div><div class="d"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">A Psalm</span></span><span class="content"> of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.35.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Plead </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my cause</span></span><span class="content">, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, with them that strive with me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.35.1"><span class="content">Fight against them that fight against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.35.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.35.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Take hold of shield and buckler,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.35.2"><span class="content">And stand up for mine help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.35.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.35.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Draw out also the spear, and stop </span><span class="add"><span class="content">the way</span></span><span class="content"> against them that persecute me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.35.3"><span class="content">Say unto my soul, I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> thy salvation.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.35.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.35.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.35.4"><span class="content">Let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.35.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.35.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let them be as chaff before the wind:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.35.5"><span class="content">And let the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> chase </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.35.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.35.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Let their way be dark and slippery:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.35.6"><span class="content">And let the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> persecute them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.35.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.35.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For without cause have they hid for me their net </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> a pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.35.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Which</span></span><span class="content"> without cause they have digged for my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.35.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.35.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.35.8"><span class="content">Into that very destruction let him fall.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.35.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.35.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And my soul shall be joyful in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.35.9"><span class="content">It shall rejoice in his salvation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.35.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.35.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">All my bones shall say, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, who </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.35.10"><span class="content">Yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.35.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.35.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">False witnesses did rise up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.35.11"><span class="content">They laid to my charge </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content"> that I knew not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.35.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.35.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They rewarded me evil for good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.35.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">To</span></span><span class="content"> the spoiling of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.35.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.35.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.35.13"><span class="content">And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.35.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.35.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I behaved myself as though </span><span class="add"><span class="content">he had been</span></span><span class="content"> my friend </span><span class="add"><span class="content">or</span></span><span class="content"> brother:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.35.14"><span class="content">I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">for his</span></span><span class="content"> mother.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.35.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.35.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.35.15"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yea</span></span><span class="content">, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> not; they did tear </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content">, and ceased not:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.35.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.35.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">With hypocritical mockers in feasts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.35.16"><span class="content">They gnashed upon me with their teeth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.35.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.35.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Lord, how long wilt thou look on?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.35.17"><span class="content">Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.35.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.35.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I will give thee thanks in the great congregation:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.35.18"><span class="content">I will praise thee among much people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.35.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.35.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.35.19"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Neither</span></span><span class="content"> let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.35.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.35.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For they speak not peace:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.35.20"><span class="content">But they devise deceitful matters against </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them that are</span></span><span class="content"> quiet in the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.35.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.35.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.35.21"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.35.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.35.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">This</span></span><span class="content"> thou hast seen, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">: keep not silence:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.35.22"><span class="content">O Lord, be not far from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.35.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.35.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.35.23"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Even</span></span><span class="content"> unto my cause, my God and my Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.35.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.35.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Judge me, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> my God, according to thy righteousness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.35.24"><span class="content">And let them not rejoice over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.35.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.35.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.35.25"><span class="content">Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.35.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.35.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.35.26"><span class="content">Let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify </span><span class="add"><span class="content">themselves</span></span><span class="content"> against me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.35.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.35.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.35.27"><span class="content">Yea, let them say continually, Let the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.35.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.35.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.35.28"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> of thy praise all the day long.</span></span></div><div 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         <div class="label">36</div><div class="d"><span class="content">To the chief Musician, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">A Psalm</span></span><span class="content"> of David the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.36.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.36.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">That there is</span></span><span class="content"> no fear of God before his eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.36.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.36.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.36.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.36.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The words of his mouth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> iniquity and deceit:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.36.3"><span class="content">He hath left off to be wise, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> to do good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.36.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.36.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He deviseth mischief upon his bed;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.36.4"><span class="content">He setteth himself in a way </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that is</span></span><span class="content"> not good;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.36.4"><span class="content">He abhorreth not evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.36.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.36.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Thy mercy, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.36.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> thy faithfulness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">reacheth</span></span><span class="content"> unto the clouds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.36.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.36.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Thy righteousness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> like the great mountains;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.36.6"><span class="content">Thy judgments </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> a great deep:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.36.6"><span class="content">O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, thou preservest man and beast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.36.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.36.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">How excellent </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy lovingkindness, O God!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.36.7"><span class="content">Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.36.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.36.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.36.8"><span class="content">And thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.36.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.36.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For with thee </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the fountain of life:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.36.9"><span class="content">In thy light shall we see light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.36.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.36.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.36.10"><span class="content">And thy righteousness to the upright in heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.36.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.36.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Let not the foot of pride come against me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.36.11"><span class="content">And let not the hand of the wicked remove me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.36.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.36.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">There are the workers of iniquity fallen:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.36.12"><span class="content">They are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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