Psalms 35:10-18

¹⁰With my whole inner being SYN I will say, “There is no one like Yahweh RHQ! No one else can rescue helpless people from powerful people RHQ. No one else can rescue weak and needy people from those who want to rob them.”

¹¹People who tell lies stand in court and falsely accuse me of doing things that I do not know anything about.

¹²In return for my doing good things for them, they do evil things to me, with the result that I feel that I am alone.

¹³When they were ill, I showed that I was sad. I did not eat any food, and I bowed my head as I prayed for them.

¹⁴I mourned and bowed my head as I prayed as though it was a friend or my mother for whom I was grieving.

¹⁵But when I had troubles, they were all happy about it. They gathered around to make fun of me. Strangers struck me, and they would not stop.

¹⁶Worthless people ridicule me and snarl at me.

¹⁷Yahweh, how long will you only watch them doing this? Rescue me from their attacking me; Save me from being killed by these men who are attacking me like MET lions that are attacking other animals

¹⁸Then, when many of your people gather, I will praise you and I will thank you in front of all of them.