| 35 | Psalms | ||
| 1 | Contend, O Yahweh, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me! | Help Me O Lord!. Psalm 35(v34) | |
| 2 | Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help! | ||
| 3 | Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, "I am your deliverance!" | ||
| 4 | Let them be put to shame and dishonour who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and confounded who devise evil against me! | ||
| 5 | Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of Yahweh driving them on! | ||
| 6 | Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of Yahweh pursuing them! | ||
| 7 | For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life. | ||
| 8 | Let ruin come upon them unawares! And let the net which they hid ensnare them; let them fall therein to ruin! | ||
| 9 | Then my soul shall rejoice in Yahweh, exulting in his deliverance. | ||
| 10 | All my bones shall say, " O Yahweh, who is like you, you who deliver the weak from him who is too strong for him, the weak and needy from him who despoils him?" | ||
| 11 | Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not. | ||
| 12 | They requite me evil for good; my soul is forlorn. | ||
| 13 | But I, when they were sick -I wore sackcloth, I afflicted myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed on my bosom, | ||
| 14 | as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; I went about as one who laments his mother, bowed down and in mourning. | ||
| 15 | But at my stumbling they gathered in glee, they gathered together against me; cripples whom I knew not slandered me without ceasing; | ||
| 16 | they impiously mocked more and more, gnashing at me with their teeth. | ||
| 17 | How long, O Yahweh, will you look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions! | ||
| 18 | Then I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you. | ||
| 19 | Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause. | ||
| 20 | For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they conceive words of deceit. | ||
| 21 | They open wide their mouths against me; they say, "Aha, Aha! our eyes have seen it!" | ||
| 22 | You have seen, O Yahweh; be not silent! O Yahweh, be not far from me! | ||
| 23 | Bestir yourself, and awake for my right, for my cause, my God and my Yahweh! | ||
| 24 | Vindicate me, O Yahweh, my God, according to your righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me! | ||
| 25 | Let them not say to themselves, "Aha, we have our heart's desire!" Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up." | ||
| 26 | Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonour who magnify themselves against me! | ||
| 27 | Let those who desire my vindication shout for joy and be glad, and say evermore, "Great is Yahweh, who delights in the welfare of his servant!" | ||
| 28 | Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long. | ||
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