Psalms 35:12-23

¹²They repay me evil for good; They cause bereavement to my soul.

¹³And yet I, during their sickness, clothed myself with sackcloth, And afflicted myself with fasting; And my prayer was turned to my bosom.

¹⁴I behaved myself as if he had been my friend or brother; I bowed down in sadness, as one mourning for his mother.

¹⁵But at my fall they rejoice, and gather themselves together; Revilers whom I know not assemble themselves against me; They tear me without ceasing.

¹⁶With base men who mock for their bread, They gnash at me with their teeth.

¹⁷How long, O LORD! wilt thou look on? O rescue my life from the destruction they plot for me; My precious life from these young lions!

¹⁸I will thank thee in the great assembly! Before a numerous people I will praise thee.

¹⁹Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully triumph over me; Let them not wink with the eye, who hate me without cause!

²⁰For they speak not peace; They devise deceit against them that are quiet in the land.

²¹Yea, they open their mouths wide against me; They say, “Aha, aha! our eyes seeth it.”

²²Thou seest it, O LORD! be not silent! O LORD! be not far from me!

²³Arouse thyself; awake for my defence! My God and my Lord, awake to my cause!