Psalms 35:1-11

¹A Psalm of David. Plead my cause , O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

²Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

³Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I am thy salvation.

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.

⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them .

⁶Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

⁷For without cause they have hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

⁸Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

⁹And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

¹⁰All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like thee, who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, even the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

¹¹False witnesses arose; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.