Psalm 35
By David.
Fight against those who fight against me.
and stand up for my help.
Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”
Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
Yahweh’s angel driving them on.
Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.
Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
Let his net that he has hidden catch himself.
Let him fall into that destruction.
It shall rejoice in his salvation.
who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him;
yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
to the bereaving of my soul.
I afflicted my soul with fasting.
My prayer returned into my own bosom.
I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it.
They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
they gnashed their teeth at me.
Rescue my soul from their destruction,
my precious life from the lions.
I will praise you among many people.
neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
Lord, don’t be far from me.
My Lord, contend for me!
Don’t let them gloat over me.
Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified,
who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”