Psalms 35:10-27

¹⁰All my bones will say, Lord, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that robbeth him?

¹¹There rise up witnesses of violence; concerning what I know not they question me.

¹²They recompense me with evil in place of good, bringing bereavement on my soul.

¹³But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted with fasting my soul, and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

¹⁴As though he had been to me a friend or a brother did I walk about: as one that mourneth for a mother did I sorrowfully bend down my head.

¹⁵But in my downfall they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; there gathered themselves together against me abject wretches, whom I knew not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

¹⁶With hypocritical babbling mockers, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹⁷O Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, from the young lions my solitary spirit.

¹⁸I will thank thee in the great assembly: among a mighty people will I praise thee.

¹⁹Let not rejoice over me those that are my enemies wrongfully: nor let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.

²⁰For they speak not peace; but against the quiet in the land they devise deceitful words.

²¹Yea, they opened wide against me their mouth; they said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

²²Thou hast seen it, O Lord! remain not silent: O Lord, be not far from me.

²³Arouse thyself, and awake to do me justice, my God and my Lord, unto my cause.

²⁴Judge me according to thy righteousness, O Lord my God; and let them not rejoice over me.

²⁵Let them not say in their heart, Aha, this is the wish of our soul: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

²⁶Let those be made ashamed and put to the blush together that rejoice at my mishap; let them be clothed with shame and confusion that magnify themselves above me.

²⁷Let those shout, and rejoice, that desire my righteousness: yea, let them say continually, Great is the Lord, who desireth the welfare of his servant.