Psalms 35:14-21

¹⁴I went about as though it had been my friend or my brother; I bowed down mournful, as one that mourneth for his mother.

¹⁵But when I halt they rejoice, and gather themselves together; the abjects gather themselves together against me, and those whom I know not; they tear me, and cease not;

¹⁶With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth.

¹⁷Lord, how long wilt Thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, mine only one from the lions.

¹⁸I will give Thee thanks in the great congregation; I will praise Thee among a numerous people.

¹⁹Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me; neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

²⁰For they speak not peace; but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

²¹Yea, they open their mouth wide against me; they say: 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.'