Psalms 35 — GNV
35Verse 1A Psalme of Dauid. Pleade thou my cause, O Lord, with them that striue with me: fight thou against them, that fight against me.Verse 2Lay hand vpon the shielde and buckler, and stand vp for mine helpe.Verse 3Bring out also the speare and stop the way against them, that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation.Verse 4Let them be confounded and put to shame, that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe, and brought to confusion, that imagine mine hurt.Verse 5Let them be as chaffe before the winde, and let the Angel of the Lord scatter them.Verse 6Let their way be darke and slipperie: and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them.Verse 7For without cause they haue hid the pit and their net for me: without cause haue they digged a pit for my soule.Verse 8Let destruction come vpon him at vnwares, and let his net, that he hath laid priuilie, take him: let him fall into the same destruction.Verse 9Then my soule shalbe ioyfull in the Lord: it shall reioyce in his saluation.Verse 10All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like vnto thee, which deliuerest the poore from him, that is too strong for him! yea, the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him!Verse 11Cruell witnesses did rise vp: they asked of me things that I knewe not.Verse 12They rewarded me euill for good, to haue spoyled my soule.Verse 13Yet I, when they were sicke, I was clothed with a sacke: I humbled my soule with fasting: and my praier was turned vpon my bosome.Verse 14I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother.Verse 15But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,Verse 16With the false skoffers at bankets, gnashing their teeth against me.Verse 17Lord, how long wilt thou beholde this? deliuer my soule from their tumult, euen my desolate soule from the lions.Verse 18So will I giue thee thankes in a great Congregation: I will praise thee among much people.Verse 19Let not them that are mine enemies, vniustly reioyce ouer mee, neyther let them winke with the eye, that hate mee without a cause.Verse 20For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.Verse 21And they gaped on mee with their mouthes, saying, Aha, aha, our eye hath seene.Verse 22Thou hast seene it, O Lord: keepe not silence: be not farre from me, O Lord.Verse 23Arise and wake to my iudgement, euen to my cause, my God, and my Lord.Verse 24Iudge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousnesse, and let them not reioyce ouer mee.Verse 25Let them not say in their hearts, O our soule reioyce: neither let them say, We haue deuoured him.Verse 26Let them bee confounded, and put to shame together, that reioyce at mine hurt: let them bee clothed with confusion and shame, that lift vp themselues against me.Verse 27But let them be ioyful and glad, that loue my righteousnesse: yea, let them say alway, Let the Lord be magnified, which loueth the prosperitie of his seruant.Verse 28And my tongue shall vtter thy righteousnesse, and thy praise euery day.