Psalms 35 To David. Contend, O Jehovah, with them contending with me: fight with those fighting with me.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ To David. Contend, O Jehovah, with them contending with me: fight with those fighting with me. ² Take hold of the shield and the buckler, and stand up for my help. ³ Draw out the spear, and shut up to the meeting of them pursuing me: say to my soul, I am thy salvation. ⁴ They seeking my soul shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be drawn back and be ashamed purposing my evil ⁵ They shall be as chaff before the wind: and the messenger of Jehovah overthrowing. ⁶ Their way shall be darkness and slippery places, and the messenger of Jehovah pursuing them. ⁷ For gratuitously they hid for me the destruction of their net: gratuitously they dug for my soul. ⁸ Desolation shall come to him not knowing, and his net which he hid shall take him: in destruction he shall fall in it ⁹ And my soul shall rejoice in Jehovah: it shall be glad in his salvation. ¹⁰ All my bones shall say, O Jehovah, who as thee, delivering the poor from him strong above him, and the poor and the needy from him stripping him? ¹¹ Witnesses of wrong will rise up; they will ask me what I knew not. ¹² They will requite me evil instead of good, bereaving to my soul ¹³ And I, in their being sick, my clothing sackcloth: I humbled my soul in fasting, and my prayer shall be turned back upon my bosom. ¹⁴ As a friend, as a brother to me: I went about as mourning a mother: being darkened, I bowed down. ¹⁵ And in my halting they rejoiced, and they were gathered together: they smiting were gathered together against me, and I knew not; they rent asunder and ceased not: ¹⁶ With profane mocking parasites, gnashing their teeth against me. ¹⁷ O Jehovah, how long wilt thou see? Turn back my soul from their destruction, my only one from the lions. ¹⁸ I will praise thee in the great convocation: I will celebrate thee among a strong people. ¹⁹ Mine enemies shall not rejoice over me for falsehood: they hating me gratuitously shall pinch the eye. ²⁰ For they will not speak peace: and against the quiet of the land they will purpose words of deceits. ²¹ They will widen their mouth upon me: they said, Aha! aha our eye saw it. ²² Thou sawest, O Jehovah: thou wilt not be silent: O Jehovah, thou wilt not remove far off from me. ²³ Rouse up and awake to judgment, my God and my Lord, for my contention. ²⁴ Judge me according to thy justice, O Jehovah my God, and they shall not rejoice over me. ²⁵ They shall not say in their heart, Aha! our soul. They shall not say, We swallowed him down. ²⁶ They shall be ashamed and they shall blush together, rejoicing for my evil: they shall be clothed with shame and reproach, magnifying against me. ²⁷ Those delighting in my justice shall rejoice and be glad: they shall say always, Jehovah shall be magnified: he delighted in the peace of his servant ²⁸ My tongue shall speak of thy justice, thy praise all the day.