Psalms 35
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1Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.SelectedPsalms 35:1Ask
2Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.SelectedPsalms 35:2Ask
3Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.SelectedPsalms 35:3Ask
4Let 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.SelectedPsalms 35:4Ask
5Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.SelectedPsalms 35:5Ask
6Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.SelectedPsalms 35:6Ask
7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.SelectedPsalms 35:7Ask
8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.SelectedPsalms 35:8Ask
9And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.SelectedPsalms 35:9Ask
10All 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?SelectedPsalms 35:10Ask
11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.SelectedPsalms 35:11Ask
12They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.SelectedPsalms 35:12Ask
13But 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.SelectedPsalms 35:13Ask
14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.SelectedPsalms 35:14Ask
15But 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:SelectedPsalms 35:15Ask
16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.SelectedPsalms 35:16Ask
17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.SelectedPsalms 35:17Ask
18I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.SelectedPsalms 35:18Ask
19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.SelectedPsalms 35:19Ask
20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.SelectedPsalms 35:20Ask
21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.SelectedPsalms 35:21Ask
22This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.SelectedPsalms 35:22Ask
23Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.SelectedPsalms 35:23Ask
24Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.SelectedPsalms 35:24Ask
25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.SelectedPsalms 35:25Ask
26Let 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.SelectedPsalms 35:26Ask
27Let 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.SelectedPsalms 35:27Ask
28And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.SelectedPsalms 35:28Ask
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