Chapter 35

¹{[A Psalm] of David.} Strive, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me: ²Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help; ³And draw out the spear, and stop [the way] against my pursuers: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. ⁴Let them be put to shame and confounded that seek after my life; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that devise my hurt: ⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Jehovah drive [them] away; ⁶Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of Jehovah pursue them. ⁷For without cause have they hidden for me their net [in] a pit; without cause they have digged [it] for my soul. ⁸Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net which he hath hidden catch himself: for destruction let him fall therein. ⁹And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah; it shall rejoice in his salvation. ¹⁰All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the afflicted from one stronger than he, yea, the afflicted and the needy from him that spoileth him! ¹¹Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not. ¹²They reward me evil for good, [to] the bereavement of my soul. ¹³But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom: ¹⁴I behaved myself as though [he had been] a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth [for] a mother. ¹⁵But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not: ¹⁶With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me. ¹⁷Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my only one from the young lions. ¹⁸I will give thee thanks in the great congregation; I will praise thee among much people. ¹⁹Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me; let them not wink with the eye that hate me without cause. ²⁰For they speak not peace; and they devise deceitful words against the quiet in the land. ²¹And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said, Aha! aha! our eye hath seen [it]. ²²Thou hast seen [it], Jehovah: keep not silence; O Lord, be not far from me. ²³Stir up thyself, and awake for my right, for my cause, my God and Lord! ²⁴Judge me, Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me. ²⁵Let them not say in their heart, Aha! so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up. ²⁶Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine adversity; let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me. ²⁷Let them exult and rejoice that delight in my righteousness; and let them say continually, Jehovah be magnified, who delighteth in the prosperity of his servant. ²⁸And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness, [and] of thy praise, all the day.