Psalms 35 — LSV
35Verse 1BY DAVID. Strive, YHWH, with my strivers, fight with my fighters,Verse 2Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help,Verse 3And draw out spear and lance, || To meet my pursuers. Say to my soul, “I [am] your salvation.”Verse 4They are ashamed and blush, those seeking my soul, || Turned backward and confounded, || Those devising my evil.Verse 5They are as chaff before wind, || And a messenger of YHWH driving away.Verse 6Their way is darkness and slipperiness, || And a messenger of YHWH—their pursuer.Verse 7For without cause they hid their net [in] a pit for me, || Without cause they dug for my soul.Verse 8Desolation meets him—he does not know, || And his net that he hid catches him, || He falls into it for desolation.Verse 9And my soul is joyful in YHWH, || It rejoices in His salvation.Verse 10All my bones say, “YHWH, who is like You, || Delivering the poor from the [one] stronger than he, || And the poor and needy from his plunderer.”Verse 11Violent witnesses rise up, || That which I have not known they ask me.Verse 12They pay me evil for good, bereaving my soul,Verse 13And I—in their sickness my clothing [is] sackcloth, || I have humbled my soul with fastings, || And my prayer returns to my bosom.Verse 14As [if] a friend, as [if] my brother, || I habitually walked, || As a mourner for a mother, || I have bowed down mourning.Verse 15And they have rejoiced in my halting, || And have been gathered together, || The strikers were gathered against me, || And I have not known, || They have torn, and they have not ceased;Verse 16With profane ones, mockers in feasts, || Gnashing their teeth against me.Verse 17Lord, how long do You behold? Keep my soul back from their desolations, || My only one from young lions.Verse 18I thank You in a great assembly, || I praise You among a mighty people.Verse 19Do not let my enemies rejoice over me [with] falsehood, || Those hating me without cause wink the eye.Verse 20For they do not speak peace, || And against the quiet of the land, || They devise deceitful words,Verse 21And they enlarge their mouth against me, || They said, “Aha, aha, our eye has seen.”Verse 22You have seen, O YHWH, || Do not be silent, O Lord—do not be far from me,Verse 23Stir up, and wake to my judgment, || My God, and my Lord, to my plea.Verse 24Judge me according to Your righteousness, O YHWH my God, || And they do not rejoice over me.Verse 25They do not say in their heart, “Aha, our desire.” They do not say, “We swallowed him up.”Verse 26They are ashamed and confounded together, || Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, || Who are magnifying themselves against me.Verse 27They sing and rejoice, who are desiring my righteousness, || And they continually say, “YHWH is magnified, || Who is desiring the peace of His servant.”Verse 28And my tongue utters Your righteousness, || All the day Your praise!