Psalms 35

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1. 1Plead my cause, LORD, with those who strive with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
2. 2Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
3. 3Draw out the spear and block the way against those who persecute me. Say to my soul, 'I am your salvation.'
4. 4Let those who seek after my soul be confounded and put to shame. Let those who devise my hurt be turned back and brought to confusion.
5. 5Let them be like chaff before the wind, and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
6. 6Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
7. 7For without cause they have hid their net for me in a pit, which without cause they have dug for my soul.
8. 8Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let the net that he has hid catch himself; let him fall into that very destruction.
9. 9And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD; it shall rejoice in his salvation.
10. 10All my bones shall say, 'LORD, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him that is too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him?'
11. 11False witnesses rose up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
12. 12They repaid me evil for good, to the spoiling of my soul.
13. 13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
14. 14I carried myself as though he had been my friend or brother. I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.
15. 15But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together. Yes, the despised ones gathered themselves together against me, and I did not know it. They tore me, and did not cease.
16. 16With hypocritical mockers at feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17. 17Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
18. 18I will give you thanks in the great congregation; I will praise you among much people.
19. 19Do not let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me, nor let those who hate me without a cause wink with the eye.
20. 20For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.
21. 21Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, 'Aha, aha! Our eye has seen it!'
22. 22You have seen this, LORD; do not keep silence. O Lord, do not be far from me.
23. 23Stir up yourself, and awake to my judgment, to my cause, my God and my Lord.
24. 24Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness, and do not let them rejoice over me.
25. 25Do not let them say in their hearts, 'Ah, so would we have it.' Do not let them say, 'We have swallowed him up.'
26. 26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.
27. 27Let them shout for joy and be glad that favor my righteous cause; yes, let them say continually, 'Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.'
28. 28And my tongue shall speak of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.