Ps 35:1 Strive, O Jehovah, with those who strive with me; / Battle against those who battle against me.
Ps 35:2 Take hold of buckler and shield, / And rise up as my help.
Ps 35:3 Draw out also the spear, and close up the way / Against those who pursue me; / Say to my soul, / I am your salvation.
Ps 35:4 Let those who seek my life / Be put to shame and humiliated; / Let those who devise evil for me / Be turned back and confounded.
Ps 35:5 Let them be like chaff before the wind, / With the angel of Jehovah driving them on.
Ps 35:6 Let their way be darkness and slipperiness itself, / With the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.
Ps 35:7 For without cause they hid their net for me; / Without cause they dug a pit for me.
Ps 35:8 Let destruction come upon him unawares, / And let his net, which he hid, catch him; / Let him fall into it, into destruction.
Ps 35:9 Then my soul will exult in Jehovah; / It will rejoice in His salvation.
Ps 35:10 All my bones will say, / Jehovah, who is like You, / Who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, / And the poor and needy from him who robs him?
Ps 35:11 Malicious witnesses rise up; / They ask me about things I know nothing of.
Ps 35:12 They repay me evil for good; / I am bereaved in soul.
Ps 35:13 But I, when they were sick, / Had sackcloth as my clothing; / I afflicted my soul with fasting, / And my prayer returned to my own bosom.
Ps 35:14 I conducted myself as if it had been my friend or my brother; / Like one mourning for his mother, I bowed down gloomily.
Ps 35:15 But at my stumbling they rejoice and gather together; / The attackers whom I did not know / Gather together against me; / They tear at me and do not cease.
Ps 35:16 As profane mocking parasites, / They gnash their teeth at me.
Ps 35:17 O Lord, how long will You look on? / Rescue my soul from their destruction, / My precious life from the lions.
Ps 35:18 I will give You thanks in the great congregation; / Among a mighty people I will praise You.
Ps 35:19 Do not let those who are wrongly my enemies rejoice over me; / Do not let those who hate me without cause narrow their eyes at me.
Ps 35:20 For they do not speak peace, / But devise words of deceit / Against the quiet people of the land.
Ps 35:21 And they open their mouth wide against me; / They say, Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen it.
Ps 35:22 You have seen, O Jehovah; do not be silent. / O Lord, do not be far from me.
Ps 35:23 Awake, and stir Yourself for my cause, / For my claim, O my God and my Lord.
Ps 35:24 Vindicate me according to Your righteousness, O Jehovah my God; / And do not let them rejoice over me.
Ps 35:25 Do not let them say in their heart, / Aha! That is what we wanted. / Do not let them say, We have swallowed him up.
Ps 35:26 May those who rejoice at my trouble / Be ashamed and confounded together; / May those who magnify themselves against me / Be clothed with shame and humiliation.
Ps 35:27 May those who delight in the vindication of my righteousness / Give a ringing shout and rejoice, / And may they say continually, / Jehovah be magnified, / Who delights in the well-being of His servant.
Ps 35:28 And my tongue will declare Your righteousness / And Your praise all day long.
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