PS-35:1 [A Psalm] of David. Plead [my cause], O LORD, with them

that strive

with me: fight against them that fight against me.

PS-35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine

help.

PS-35:3 Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them

that

persecute me: say unto my soul, I [am] thy salvation.

PS-35:4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after

my soul: let

them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

PS-35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel

of the LORD

chase [them].

PS-35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of

the LORD

persecute them.

PS-35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a

pit, [which]

without cause they have digged for my soul.

PS-35:8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his

net that he

hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

PS-35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall

rejoice in his

salvation.

PS-35:10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like unto thee,

which

deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea,

the poor and the

needy from him that spoileth him?

PS-35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge

[things] that I

knew not.

PS-35:12 They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my

soul.

PS-35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was]

sackcloth: I

humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine

own bosom.

PS-35:14 I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or]

brother: I

bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his] mother.

PS-35:15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered

themselves

together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together

against me, and I

knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:

PS-35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon

me with their

teeth.

PS-35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from

their

destructions, my darling from the lions.

PS-35:18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I

will praise thee

among much people.

PS-35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice

over me:

[neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a

cause.

PS-35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful

matters against

[them that are] quiet in the land.

PS-35:21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and]

said, Aha, aha,

our eye hath seen [it].

PS-35:22 [This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD,

 be not far

from me.

PS-35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, [even] unto

my cause, my

God and my Lord.

PS-35:24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness;

 and let them

not rejoice over me.

PS-35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have

it: let them

not say, We have swallowed him up.

PS-35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together

that rejoice at

mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that

magnify

[themselves] against me.

PS-35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my

righteous cause:

yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which

hath pleasure

in the prosperity of his servant.

PS-35:28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness [and] of

thy praise

all the day long.

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