Psalms 35:16-25

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!

²⁴Judge me according to thy righteousness, O Jehovah, my God! Let them not triumph over me!

²⁵Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha! we have our wish!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”