Psalms 35:1-15

¹To David. The psalm of David. Lord, deem thou them, that annoy me; overcome thou them, that fight against me.

²Take thou armours and shield; and rise up into help to me.

³Hold out the sword, and close altogether the way against them that pursue me; say thou to my soul, I am thine health.

⁴They that seek my life; be shamed, and ashamed. They that think evils to me; be turned away backward, and be they shamed.

⁵Be they made as dust before the face of the wind; and the angel of the Lord make them strait.

⁶Their way be made darkness, and sliderness; and the angel of the Lord pursue them.

⁷For without cause they hid to me the death of their snare; in vain they despised my soul.

⁸The snare which he knoweth not come to him, and the taking which he hid take him; and fall he into the snare in that thing.

⁹But my soul shall fully have joy in the Lord; and shall delight on his health.

¹⁰All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like thee? Thou deliverest a poor man from the hand of his stronger; a needy man and poor from them that diversely ravish him.

¹¹Wicked witnesses rising asked me things, which I knew not.

¹²They yielded to me evils for goods; barrenness to my soul.

¹³But when they were dis-easeful to me; I was clothed in an hair-shirt. I meeked my soul in fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom.

¹⁴I pleased so as our neighbour, as our brother; I was made meek, so as mourning and sorrowful.

¹⁵And they were glad, and came together against me; torments were gathered on me, and I knew it not. They were scattered, and not compunct;