Psalms 35
gltv@Psalms:35:1 @ A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, contend with those who contend with me; fight those who fight against me.
gltv@Psalms:35:2 @ Take hold of a shield and buckler, and arise as my help.
gltv@Psalms:35:3 @ Draw out the spear and close ranks to meet my pursuers; say to my soul, I am your salvation.
gltv@Psalms:35:4 @ Let those who seek my soul be ashamed and disgraced; let them be turned back and brought to confusion, those who plot evil to me.
gltv@Psalms:35:5 @ Let them be as chaff before the wind, and the Angel of Jehovah driving away.
gltv@Psalms:35:6 @ Let their way be dark and slippery, and the Angel of Jehovah their pursuer.
gltv@Psalms:35:7 @ For they have hidden their pit-net for me without cause; without cause they have dug for my soul.
gltv@Psalms:35:8 @ Let destruction come on him; he will not know; and let his net which he concealed catch him; let him fall in it, into destruction.
gltv@Psalms:35:9 @ And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah; it will rejoice in His salvation.
gltv@Psalms:35:10 @ All my bones shall say: O Jehovah, who is like You, who delivers the poor from those stronger than he; yes, the poor and needy from his plunderer?
gltv@Psalms:35:11 @ Witnesses of violence rise up; they asked me what I did not know;
gltv@Psalms:35:12 @ they rewarded me evil for good, bereaving my soul.
gltv@Psalms:35:13 @ But in their sickness, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fastings; and my prayer returned to my bosom.
gltv@Psalms:35:14 @ I walked as a friend, as to my brother; as one who mourns a mother; I was bowed down mourning.
gltv@Psalms:35:15 @ But they rejoiced in my stumbling, and assembled; the defamers assembled themselves against me, and I knew not; they tore and were not silent,
gltv@Psalms:35:16 @ with the ungodly, mockers for a cake, gnashing their teeth on me.
gltv@Psalms:35:17 @ O Lord, how long will You look on? Draw back my soul from their desolations, my only one from the lions.
gltv@Psalms:35:18 @ I will thank You in the great assembly, and I will praise You among a mighty people.
gltv@Psalms:35:19 @ Let not my lying enemies rejoice over me, do not let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.
gltv@Psalms:35:20 @ For they do not speak peace; but they devise deceitful things against the quiet ones of the earth.
gltv@Psalms:35:21 @ And they open their mouth wide against me; they say, Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen.
gltv@Psalms:35:22 @ You have seen, O Jehovah; do not keep silence, O Lord, do not be far from me.
gltv@Psalms:35:23 @ Stir Yourself and awaken to my judgment, to my cause, my God and my Lord.
gltv@Psalms:35:24 @ Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to Your righteousness; and do not let them rejoice over me.
gltv@Psalms:35:25 @ Let them not say in their hearts, Aha! Our soul! Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
gltv@Psalms:35:26 @ Let them be ashamed and be confounded together, the ones who rejoice at my evil; let them be clothed with shame and dishonor, the ones who magnify themselves against me.
gltv@Psalms:35:27 @ Let those who delight in my justification shout and rejoice; and they shall say without ceasing: Jehovah be magnified, delighting in the peace of His servant.
gltv@Psalms:35:28 @ And my tongue will speak of Your righteousness and of Your praise all the day.